When the philosopher’s apprentice unwittingly swallows his elixir of life, he faces a future of eternal youth and immortality. Initially this feels like a wonderful blessing … but as time goes on and his beloved wife ages before his youthful eyes and spirals into jealousy and resentment of his permanent youthful appearance, the gift begins to feel more like a terrible curse.
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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.
Cathy Dobson is the author of Planet Germany and a narrator of audiobooks.