Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey from the beauty of the Swiss alps to the desolate waste of the Arctic circle. Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, has a great ambition: to create intelligent life. But when his creature first stirs, he realizes he has made a monster. A monster which, abandoned by his master and shunned by everyone who sees it, follows Dr Frankenstein with murder and horrors to the very ends of the earth.