About this book

Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant young student at the university of Ingolstadt, obsessed with one question that no professor has been able to answer for him: where does life begin, and can a human hand light it? After months of secret work in a private room above his lodgings, on a rainy November night, Victor opens his eyes to see his own creation open its eyes too. What he made is not a monster in the cartoon sense: it is a thinking being, capable of language, of feeling, of grief. But Victor, terrified of what he has done, abandons the creature on the spot. From that abandonment grows a chase that will cross Europe and end on the ice of the Arctic, with a brother dead, a wife dead, a friend dead, and a creator and his creation finally face to face, asking each other the only question that matters: who, in the end, was the real monster? Mary Shelley's novel, written when she was nineteen years old, retold in fifteen chapters as a warning that has never gone out of date.

Content warnings: Şiddet

From the book

There are places on this earth where God has finished speaking, and the silence He leaves behind is not peace. Robert Walton learned this on the eleventh day after the ice closed around his ship. He had come north for glory.