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Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus
I bid you read this tale, not for terror’s sake alone, but for the meditation it invites. Frankenstein is the story of a young man—Victor—who, in pursuit of knowledge beyond mortal bounds, creates life, and then recoils from his own creation. It is a story not of monsters, but of abandonment; not of lightning and science, but of what becomes of the being who is unloved, unclaimed, and cast out into a world that never asked for him. Written in youth, yet drawn from grief and contemplation, this novel asks: What are the limits of human ambition? What duty do we owe to what we shape? And when we fashion life in our image, what responsibility follows? In these pages, you may find horror, yes—but also sorrow, longing, and a creature who, though made of death, longs fiercely to live. — Mary Shelley Haunted by thought, not superstition. Authoress of invention and lament.
- Language
- EN
- Genres
- horror, novel
- Published
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