Review: Brillaint and tragic novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
This famous novel has been described as Gothic, as romantic, as a horror story, as science fiction: Which is it? Well it is all these things, and more. Ignore the impression you may have from Hollywood movies that make caricatures of the characters (entertaining as many of the movies are) and read the original extraordinary tale of the burning desire to create life and of society's cruelty to someone who is different.Almost unbelievable that the story was created by Mary Shelly when she was still a teenager and first published (anonymously, in 1818) when she was just 21. This is an excellently formatted and illustrated edition of this brilliant work.