Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1 hr 36 min read

The creature's terrible demand drives Victor Frankenstein and his creation toward a final, ruinous pursuit across the frozen ends of the Earth.

This is Volume 3, the conclusion, of a French edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 'Frankenstein,' the founding masterpiece of science fiction. Devastating, unforgettable, profound. Read it for the shattering finale of the great Gothic tragedy of maker and made, in French.

In its time

Published in 1818, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

1 hr 36 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).