Frankenstein

Written by Mary Shelley

Narrated by Kenneth Branagh

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! ... Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded...

FRANKENSTEIN, or the Modern Prometheus, is Mary Shelley's passionate and Gothic tale of terror, in which a man's desire to know the unknowable sweeps him into a living nightmare. Victor Frankenstein's experiments with life itself give birth to an extraordinary force with the potential for either good or evil. Read by Kenneth Branagh, abridged.

(P)1997 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hachette UK Audio
• Release date: Jan 11, 2007
• ISBN: 9781848941885

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva. Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley conceived Frankenstein in, according to her, “a waking dream.” This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.