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Frankenstein
or, the Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
What begins to change when someone crosses a boundary once thought impossible? Often remembered for its scientific experiment, Frankenstein is, beneath the surface, a surprisingly human story about loneliness, responsibility, and choices that cannot easily be undone. A novel that often surprises readers by how deeply human it truly feels.
Part of Shadows, Secrets and the Self
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- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Language
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About the author
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British writer whose imagination gave literature one of its most enduring modern myths and helped lay the foundations of science fiction. In Frankenstein, she created the ambitious scientist who dares to make life and the lonely being he abandons, in a story that fuses Gothic atmosphere, philosophical unease, and a warning against human pride. Her work includes novels, short stories, travel writing, essays, biographical sketches, and the careful editing of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s literary legacy. Although she is often remembered as the young woman who conceived Frankenstein near Lake Geneva, her life was marked by loss, uncertainty, and extraordinary intellectual courage. Perhaps that is why the novel still cuts so deeply: it is not only a tale of a monster, but of a soul desperate to be seen and loved.
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Shadows, Secrets and the Self
Stories of secrets, hidden identities, guilt, obsession, transformation, and the darker sides of human nature. This collection opens books in which true tension lies not only in external danger, but in what remains concealed beneath the surface of the self.