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Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
A young scientist builds a living being from the dead and abandons it in horror. The creature learns to speak, to read and to want — and returns to demand from its maker what it was never given.
Shelley wrote a horror story in which the horror is neglect. The science is barely described; the consequences are described in full. Two centuries of adaptations have kept the lightning and lost the letters, the Alpine conversation and the creature's own account — which is where the book actually lives.
Victor Frankenstein, a student in Ingolstadt, discovers how to give life to dead matter and does it. The being he makes is enormous, articulate within a year and utterly alone; Victor flees it. When the creature comes back, it comes with a story of its own, a demand for a companion and, when that is refused, a plan to take from Victor everything Victor refused to give.
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