Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
English | 12 March 2008 | ASIN: B002SQF4KA | MP3@64 kbps | 8h 42m | 218.89 MB
Author: Mary Shelley
Narrator: Simon Templeman, Anthony Heald, Stefan Rudnicki
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, is consumed by a fanatic desire to create a living being. He fashions an eight-foot-tall creature and succeeds in animating him, but, horrified by his visage, perceives his creation to be a monster and frightens him away. The monster, wandering in search of human companionship, is spurned and repulsed by all he approaches and learns to hate and to kill. He confronts his maker with a terrible choice: unless Frankenstein creates for him a mate, he will go on a rampage of destruction.
Frankenstein, a masterpiece of 19th-century Gothic horror and considered to be the first science-fiction novel, is a subversive tale about the corrupt tendencies in humanity’s most “civilized” ambitions.
