Restless Classics: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Paperback)

from ctpress

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel..." The most tragic thing in this gothic horror-story is the monsters vain longing for love, for a friendly soul. He doesn't find it - not even in his creator, the young science student, Victor Frankenstein. And in stead the monster turns ...

from benkaboo

Summary: Driven guy takes things a bit too far and ends up creating something that destroys everything: Things I liked. Introducing the main protaganist through the eyes of a secondary category. This reminded me a bit of Gatsby and Nick. Good questions/ideas: The 'Other', obsession, what is...

from KJC__

I read the book on Standard Ebooks, which is Project Gutenberg if Project Gutenberg had nicer formatting. I'll try to use their service instead of Gutenbergs in the future, since the reading experience is more consistent. In a fit of passion, the protagonist imbues lifeless matter with life, thu...

from jonbrammer

Mary Shelley's greatest work is deeply influenced by the ideas of her age, and its conception was imbued with the companionship of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron in the appropriately Romantic environs of the Swiss Alps. In Harold Bloom's postscript, he identifies Frankenstein's demonic creation as ...

from Karlstar

The classic horror fiction tale of a scientist and his creation. Set in the late 1700's/early 1800's, Victor Frankenstein relates his tale of his creation. A college student, he becomes obsessed with classic 'natural philosophy' (alchemy?) and fuses it with current knowledge in chemistry to learn...