1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Roxana
  • Moll Flanders
  • Love In Excess
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Oroonoko
  • The Princess of Cleves

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

70. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I only knew the story of Frankenstein from movie versions, so it was fascinating to read Mary Shelley's original. It's another story told in letters and journals by a third party. Shelley poses serious philosophical questions about good and evil. Are we created good, and become evil because of how we are treated or how people perceive us?

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