Frankenstein

Frankenstein / Mary Shelley ; read by Tom Casaletto.— Library ed.— [Grand Haven] : Brilliance Audio, c2004.

Downloadable audio file (8 hrs., 23 min.)

(Classic collection)

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Unabridged.

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1. Frankenstein (Fictitious character) – Fiction. 2. Gothic fiction (Literary genre). 3. Monsters – Fiction. 4. Romanticism. 5. Scientists – Fiction.

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It could be called a Tale of Two Wretches for wretch is the term that Victor Frankenstein and his Creature most frequently use to describe themselves or each other. Applied to oneself, it’s a term of pathetic sorrow and isolation, but when aimed at the other, it’s a term of abuse and scorn. Full of romantic Sturm und Drang and wild inspiring landscapes as the characters trek across Europe into the Arctic, this Gothic revival tale and classic of horror fiction has very few scares in it, but it overflows with tortured reflections on the human condition in general and the isolation of the outcast in particular.