Frankenstein (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. A Gothic science horror of a mad creator and his creature—an epistolary, Promethean tragedy from Ingolstadt to the ArcticBy Mary Shelley
Length3h 20m
About this audiobook
Frankenstein unfolds through an epistolary architecture - Walton's Arctic letters enclosing Victor's confession and the Creature's eloquent rejoinder - so that competing testimonies test the ethics of creation, responsibility, and exile. Shelley marries Gothic dread to Romantic introspection, setting sublime landscapes against fevered laboratories. Precise yet lyrical, her prose engages contemporary galvanism and Miltonic echoes; the shifting roles of victim and villain unsettle moral certainty. Composed in 1818, it registers anxieties about industrial modernity and lays groundwork for science fiction and bioethics. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and partner to Percy Bysshe Shelley - conceived the tale in 1816 at Villa Diodati amid debates on electricity, vitalism, and poetic invention. Personal bereavements and her radical inheritance focused her on nurture, social exclusion, and the ethics of making. The later 1831 revision adds a darker fatalism, yet the youthful intellectual audacity and humane skepticism that sparked the original remain legible throughout. Readers of Gothic fiction, philosophy of science, and ethics will find a bracing, lucid inquiry into the obligations of creators. Read it for its ingenious structure, its unsettling compassion, and its prescience about technological ambition and the fragile communities it imperils.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (17)
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GenreLiterary Classics, Horror
Length3 hrs 20 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 12, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
21CHAPTER TWO
2Introduction
22CHAPTER THREE
3Synopsis
23CHAPTER FOUR
4Historical Context
24CHAPTER FIVE
5Author Biography
25CHAPTER SIX
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6PREFACE
26CHAPTER SEVEN
7VOLUME ONE
27CHAPTER EIGHT
8LETTER ONE
28CHAPTER NINE
9LETTER TWO
29VOLUME THREE
10LETTER THREE
30CHAPTER ONE
11LETTER FOUR
31CHAPTER TWO
12CHAPTER ONE
32CHAPTER THREE
13CHAPTER TWO
33CHAPTER FOUR
14CHAPTER THREE
34CHAPTER FIVE
15CHAPTER FOUR
35CHAPTER SIX
16CHAPTER FIVE
36CHAPTER SEVEN
17CHAPTER SIX
37WALTON IN CONTINUATION
18CHAPTER SEVEN
38Analysis
19VOLUME TWO
39Reflection
20CHAPTER ONE
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