A review by jacob_edwards985
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley

5.0

I really enjoyed this. Mary Shelly is absolutely incomprehensibly talented for writing this timeless classic in her teenage years. Frankenstein, while largely a critique on burgeoning industrialism, is also a critique of mankind itself and our tendency to believe ourselves greater than nature. It’s a beautifully written (surprisingly, to me, as I expected it to feel significantly more antiquated just because of when it was written) and both Frankenstein and the monster have beautiful sections of prose attached to them. Peak of Romanticism in my eyes.