by Mary Shelley, written in 1818.

This is the dust jacket review.

Frankenstien presents an unworldly outcast who turns to violence only when he is rejected and deprived of affection.

Yet his creator, Dr.Victor Frankenstein, must pay the price for his scientific arrogance, his desire to play God, usurp the female role and 'give birth' to another human being.

In scenes of nightmarish power, monster and maker meet in the shadow of Mont Blanc and chase accross the frozen Arctic wastes.



When Mary Shelley finished Frankenstein, she was pregnant, nursing a sickly son and had already watched a baby daughter die.
Drawing on her most intimate feelings, she breathed new life into tired Gothic horrors to produce this gripping, spine chilling classic.

This critique is from Philip Gooden,for the Everyman publication of Frankenstein.