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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

Original publication
1818
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
458
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror, Philosophy
Translated from
English

Book summary

Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, succeeds in creating life from dead matter, but immediately rejects his creature, horrified by its appearance. Left to itself, the being develops consciousness and emotions, but faces rejection and solitude. Its search for acceptance gradually turns into a desire for revenge against its creator. Through this tragic relationship, the story questions scientific responsibility, the limits of progress, and the nature of humanity. The author delivers a dark and gripping work about creation, abandonment, and the unpredictable consequences of ambition.

The plot

A young scientist seeks the secret of life. Victor Frankenstein, a student from Geneva, secretly builds a huge being and wants to bring it to life.

The world of the book

The story begins near the North Pole. Robert Walton, an English explorer, sails towards the North Pole. Amid the ice, he rescues an exhausted man, Victor Frankenstein, who tells him his life story.

The author

She invented Frankenstein at 18. The daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin, she ran away at 16 with the poet Percy Shelley, whom she later married. In 1816, on the shores of Lake…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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