FRANKENSTEIN

The book that translated the dark and stormy ethos of the gothic novel into the foundation for the tale of modern science fiction now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co Signature Clothbound Editions line Dr Victor Frankenstein never considers the consequences of his obsession In his zeal to understand and harness the secret of life he neglects his family and friends isolates himself from the world and ignores his own health For years he labors to create a new race of intelligent beings He spends his nights scrounging human and animal body parts from graveyards slaughterhouses and hospital dissection rooms By day he experiments in his secret laboratory learning from his mistakes and perfecting the creature who he believes will worship him as a god But this hubris is not his only sin When he succeeds Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life Rather than exult in his accomplishment he runs from it retreating to the comfort of long neglected friends and family Frankenstein has indeed created a monster not by animating dead flesh but by abandoning his creation and planting within it the seeds of rage and loneliness Now the monster is out for revenge