Frankenstein Author:Marry Shelley The Story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication almost a century and a half ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a sc... more »ientist who oversteps the bounds of conscious, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his solitude.« less