A brilliant young doctor discovers the secret of animating life and creates a monster out of dead body parts, without thinking what place such a creature might have in society. Lonely, unloved, utterly miserable, the creature turns on his creator and wreaks a vengeance at once gruesome and all too u
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
✍ Scribed by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
- Publisher
- Sony CONNECT Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
9781434000828
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