Frankenstein
“The novel’s greatest strength seems to me its ironic contrast between the deepening of self-consciousness in the poor daemon and the narrowing of self-awareness in Victor Frankenstein.”
Harold Bloom, American literary critic
The Gothic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his construction of a human being who runs amok has, with the help of numerous films, become one of the most vivid and enduring horror stories ever written. But Mary Shelley’s original novel, written in 1816, dealt more sympathetically with “the daemon,” showing how an initially beneficent creature is hammered into a daemon by the way he is treated.
The legend of Frankenstein and his unholy creation—and their obsessive pursuit of each other from Switzerland to the North Pole—is brought to life in this wonderful audio dramatization.
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