An excellent read - it's an astonishing thing. One of the first truly modern books to my mind. I don't go in much for gender politics - it's a mine field - but she royally ought to considered a proto-feminist. Your copy has a very lovely cover picture by Caspar David Friedrich - entirely suitable but it lacks the sub-heading of the original book - 'The Modern Prometheus,' - as I'm sure you know your classics - the man who stole the fire from the gods. The book was originally published anonymously. It reads - mostly - beautifully. I don't know about you - but - I completely identified with the monster. Frankenstein was an idiot. Ideas of hubris that are even more relevant now than then. Magnified massively these days. I found the sequence where the monster was hiding in a hut or shelter a bit thin - he gets some books and in short order learns Greek, Latin and absorbs the contents of an encyclopedia at first reading. The reconciliation of this scene is beautiful though - the blind man has no fear of him - he then is hounded out of town - yet again - by the 'sighted.' For me the pivotal event in the book is when Dr Frankenstein is high up a mountain and his creation marches relentlessly up the hill to confront him. All in all - a fantastic book. Have you read 'Dracula,' even better along similar themes. Although, decades later. genuinely terrifying in places. Again modern - in it's use of the available technology at the time. A warning from history? Hubris - as I say. Yours - I.