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Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he create a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death, remorse, murder and horror that only his death will put to an end. Alternately well received and disregarded since its anonymous publication in 1818. The story of Frankenstein is is generally considered to be a landmark work of romantic and Gothic literature, as well as science fiction. Narrated by Michael Ward.
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About Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797–1851), née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was born in London, the second daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, well known feminist, philosopher, educator, and writer, and William Godwin, famous English philosopher, novelist, and journalist. She was best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, written when she was eighteen and published when she was twenty-one. She was married to the Romantic writer Percy Bysshe Shelley.