Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1818 · Science Fiction, Horror & Gothic

A young Genevese student, Victor Frankenstein, discovers the secret of life and builds a living man from dead matter - then flees in horror the instant it wakes. Abandoned and reviled, his creature learns to speak and to love, is cast out by all, and turns to a terrible vengeance that destroys everyone Victor holds dear. Told through a sea-captain's letters from the Arctic ice, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the first great work of science fiction and an unmatched meditation on ambition, creation, and the loneliness of the outcast. Complete and richly illustrated.