Frankenstein: Enlarged Print Edition

What if the real monster was never the creature at all?Victor Frankenstein wanted to cheat death. He wanted to reach beyond the limits of nature and prove that a brilliant enough mind could conquer anything — even the grave. He succeeded. And in that moment of triumph, when his creation opened its eyes and drew its first breath, Victor did the one thing that set everything terrible in motion.He ran.What followed was not the story of a monster. It was the story of a being who came into the world desperate for love, capable of tenderness, hungry for connection — and found only horror and rejection at every turn. A being who learned, slowly and painfully, that the man who made him wanted nothing more than to forget he existed.Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at eighteen years old. She had already known grief, loss, and the particular loneliness of being brilliant in a world that wasn't sure what to do with her. She poured all of it into this novel — the longing to be accepted, the agony of abandonment, the terrible cost of ambition without compassion.Two hundred years later, it still breaks your heart.This DeLaney Classics edition presents Shelley's complete original text in an easy to red 13pt font, alongside a new Historical Context and Foreword, placing this timeless story in the world that created it — and the world it continues to shape.Read it and ask yourself who you feel sorry for. The answer might surprise you. Read more