Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · Patrick Nobes

Nov 2007 · Oxford University Press · Narrated by Multiple Narrators

About this audiobook

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill ...

About the author

Mary Shelley, the daughter of the writer Mary Wollstonecraft, was born in 1797. At the age of 16 she ran away to the Continent with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, marrying him in 1816 on the death of his wife. She started to write Frankenstein as her contribution to a ghost story competition while staying near Lake Geneva with Shelley and Lord Byron. After her husband's death in 1822, she returned to England with her son to continue her career as a writer and died in 1851.