Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Collected by a scientist from fragments of dead bodies, the monster develops its own mind as it learns to hate itself and hate its creator. Shelley's tense and intellectually rich Gothic story confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all literature — the power of the human imagination, the potential science, the gap between appearance and essence, the consequences of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.
