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Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Dan Stevens
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Audie Award Finalist, Solo Narration - Male, 2013

Audie Award Finalist, Classic, 2013

Narrator Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

Public Domain (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Classics Horror Women's Voices Scary Thought-Provoking Heartfelt Inspiring Science Fiction Fiction Emotionally Gripping Thriller British Literature
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There is a reason this book still resonates after two hundred years. Totally different to the various film adaptations, an epic tragedy I would urge everyone to experience. It is relentlessly miserable, with salvation and redemption for none, so perhaps not all in one sitting.

Timeless

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Dan Stevens narrates beautifully. I read the book as a youngster and felt the urge to revisit as an adult. Stevens articulates well and characters are easily distinguished . highly recommended.

excellent telling of the classic

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A wonderfully macabre, melancholy tale. Sometimes it’s incredibly long winded, but it adds to the complete and utter despair of the “fiend” and Dr. Frankenstein. A bucket list must!

Excellent.

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you know when you song karaoke and you start too high and then the song gets higher and you're screwed?

The monster started too sad and then he had to maintain that voice for 20 chapters. Needs re-recording- classic novel turned monster into a whiny wimp, sounds like the goth from IT Crowd.

spoiled by narrator

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Which one was the “monster” exactly

A creation thrust into a world and abandoned with no guidance, care or protection and he is the one called the monster, he is the one people run from screaming, he did not choose his appearance, he wanted to connect to someone, anyone, to know and understand what he was observing in others, what he had never had a chance to learn himself since “waking” and walking alone.

Time and time again, turned away, hope became despair, but it’s so easy to just blame “the monster” because looking in the mirror might reveal something far more hideous.

Heartbreaking tale.

Who is the monster Frankenstein?

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