Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1797–1851
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A student builds a living being and abandons it, and the creature learns language, reads, and asks why it was made. Mary Shelley began it in her teens, and the nested narrators can be stiff, but the creature’s account of its own loneliness is unforgettable. It gave the modern world one of its central questions about making things it cannot answer for.