📰 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Version 5 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)

“Beware what you wish for – you may get it!” These words may have been written for Victor Frankenstein, a proud young man of Switzerland who thought he had the elements of a chemical giant within himself. After some months of feverish work in isolation, he succeeded in creating and animating an actual giant, a homunculus. Afraid to confront the...