Started: 5/31/09
Finished: 5/31/09
Year: 1818, This edition 2003
Pages: 213
Genre: Classic/Horror
Grade: B
Reason for reading: grabbed it off the TBR pile
Blurb (from back cover): "'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' A summer event's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine room, and a runaway imagination-fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life-conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Opinion: Not too bad of a book considering how old it is. Not a thriller horror novel like in today's time but still worth the read.
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