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Narrated by: Alex Squire, The Light

Unabridged — 9 hours

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The birth of the monster genre? Yes. The birth of modern science fiction? Also yes. Mary Shelley’s masterpiece is as timeless as it is tantalizing. On its surface the story of a scientist bent on creating life, while underneath a criticism of human nature, this story is required in all minds and on all shelves.

Obsessed with uncovering the deepest secrets of life, a gifted young scientist isolates himself from family, love, and ordinary human feeling in pursuit of a single goal: to defeat death itself. After years of fevered study and dangerous experimentation, he succeeds in giving life to a being assembled from lifeless matter. The moment of triumph instantly becomes one of horror. Repulsed by what he has created, he flees from it, abandoning the newborn creature to face the world alone, without...