Frankenstein in Who Doesn't Love a Classic?

May 13, 2010 Book Concierge rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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A classic "ghost" story. Victor Frankenstein pursues science to its logical extreme to create life, and he is immediately horrified at his own success. The monster, however, is intelligent and resourceful and comes to understand his own loneliness and therefore seeks revenge on his creator. There are many unexplained occurences (How'd the monster find the ship? or get Henry Clerval's body onto the very shore that Frankenstein would wind up on?) especially for today's more savvy reader, but it's ...more

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Feb 16, 2016 Amester rated it really liked it

Shelves: british-literature, classic-fiction, gothic-literature, social-commentary

One of the worst protagonists in the history of literature. And it's not even the monster. ...more

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Jan 25, 2016 Mark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, literature, gothic, monster, romanticism

Much more literary than the movies would lead you to believe.

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Dec 22, 2014 Sara rated it liked it

Shelves: e-book, 1001-books, classics, horror

Victor Frankenstein has lived a charmed life. When he leaves behind Geneva for the colleges of Ingolstodt and his study of the natural sciences he is excited and gifted. Before three years are out he has surpassed all his teachers have to teach him and endeavors to discover the secret of life. To this end he creates for himself a man, cobbled together from the bits and pieces of cadavers. Yet his great success will also prove to be his demise.
An epistolary novel, we learn this story as Frankenst ...more

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Feb 26, 2017 Mary-Chandler rated it it was amazing

Frankenstein, alternatively titled * —

"Me And My Enemy"
"Many Appalling Hours Passed"
"A Thing Such As Even Dante Could Not Have Conceived"
"I Shut Up, As Well As I Could"
"Accumulation Of Distress"
"The Last Moments Of My Life During Which I Enjoyed The Feeling Of Happiness"

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