num_pages: 224
description: Frankenstein ranks among the most enduring horror tales ever imagined. The groaning Monster, bolts erupting from his neck and stitches fastening his square brow, is famous worldwide. But the creature born in Mary Shelley's mind nearly two hundred years ago was far more murderous andraging, but also articulate, lonely, and gravely misunderstood by the world into which he was thrust.The story of Victor Frankenstein emerges in a series of letters penned by Walton, an English explorer icebound in the Arctic. While studying natural philosophy in Geneva, Frankenstein discovers how to give life to inanimate matter, and from dead flesh constructs a living being. His Monsterpossesses superhuman speed and strength, and learns of human emotion by studying Goethe, Plutarch, and Milton's Paradise Lost . But as the creature's mind and thoughts develop, his loneliness and misery build, and he acts out in deadly violence. When the scientist refuses to create a companion forhim, the Monster lets loose his full wrath. Berserk, he murders Frankenstein's wife, then flees to the North Pole. Frankenstein follows, desperate to destroy his rampaging creation. Once there he meets Walton and confesses the horror that is drawing him deep into the Arctic wasteland.Jeffery Deaver pours a suspense master's insight into his introduction, exploring the author's drive to thrill and terrify, and digging at the actual birthplace of Frankenstein's Mary Shelley's mind. The author of sixteen novels, Deaver has appeared on bestseller lists around the world.His novel The Bone Collector was produced as a feature film by Universal Pictures starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and his most recent novel, The Blue Nowhere , is being produced by Warner Brothers.
language: English
title: Frankenstein
titlecomplete: Frankenstein
characters: The Monster (Frankenstein), William Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, De Lacey, Agatha, Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, Alphonse Frankenstein, Ernest Frankenstein, Justine Moritz, Safie, Robert Walton, Felix, Elizabeth Lavenza, Henry Clerval
genres: Read For School, School, Science Fiction, Novels, Gothic, Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 1518924
places: Germany, Switzerland, Arctic Circle, Ingolstadt, Geneva
publisher: Oxford University Press