Frankenstein Frankenstein

Frankenstein

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Publisher Description

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, and this audiobook is read from that text. The title of the novel refers to the scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In modern popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein" (especially in films since 1931), despite this being the name of the scientist, and the creature being unnamed in the book itself. Frankenstein is a novel infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully-realised science fiction novel and raises many issues still relevant to today's society. 

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
EA
Ella Acton
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:54
hr min
RELEASED
2020
10 April
PUBLISHER
Vidya Publications
SIZE
319.1
MB

Customer Reviews

wendyyyywaffles ,

Chapters were completely different.

I bought this book to listen along to the book I already had of Frankenstein, but soon realised the words and chapters were not at all the same. Paragraphs were changed, words were left out, and I’m not sure if it is because they are different versions, but I assume when you buy an audiobook with the same title and author of the physical copy of the book, you expect it to be the same.