Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus Brown and the war waged by

and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves

In the magical underworld of Victorian London

" —Times Literary SupplementC

and where the adventure begins

a detective

Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus Brown and the war waged byOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a