Frankenstein

Annotated

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Simon Hester

Far from its popular image, the story of Frankenstein as told by Mary Shelley is not a tale that finds horror in a hideous "monster", or a "crazed" scientist. The darkness in the narrative is found in the profound loneliness of both Creator and Created, as they seek one another in a tragic cycle of unfulfilled longing and revenge.

This powerful novel, first published in 1818, still surprises and shocks us with the fundamental questions about the moral boundaries of human discovery and helps us to question what it means to be human.

Public Domain (P)2022 Simon Hester

the emotion in the narrators voice makes the story feel so alive and real.

this book is great and leaves you in suspense for each chapter. I couldn't put it down- loved it. I will say that the book spends a lot of time describing events to the reader though and where there is still dialogue, it is not at much as I thought there would be.