Brush Up Your Shelley With 'Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years'
Christopher Frayling's new celebration of Frankenstein is half art book, half scholarly study, tracing the famous monster's path from page to stage to screen, just in time for his 200th birthday.
by Genevieve Valentine
Nov 25, 2017
3 minutes
"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld my man completed ..."
In the two centuries since publication, Mary Shelley's novel about an obsessive student and his creation has taken on, fittingly, a life of its own. But it is in itself a mystery, eluding attempts to produce a definitive version — and as with other modern myths, it has been shaped anew with every generation. It's a story,
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