Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was just eighteen, publishing it in 1818 to instant and lasting fame. The novel follows the brilliant but reckless Victor Frankenstein, whose obsession with creating life from death produces a creature of profound intelligence and profound loneliness — one whose terrible fate raises enduring questions about scientific responsibility, ambition, and what it means to be human.
Widely credited as the first true science fiction novel, Frankenstein is also a deeply Gothic and Romantic work, suffused with themes of alienation, creation, and consequence. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and read the novel that changed literature forever.