Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus » (Unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hours)

Simon Vance is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An Audie(R) Award-winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by "Booklist" magazine.

At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein, whose obsession with discovering "the cause of generation and life" leads him to assemble a human being from stolen body parts.

James Hynes

. . .[T]he novel Frankenstein is quite a read. . . .It's highly Romantic, in the literary sense. . .[there is] a good deal of attractive torment and self-doubt, from both Victor Frankenstein and his creation. . . .If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it's Frankenstein. —The New York Times Book Review

About the Series
  About This Volume
    
PART I: FRANKENSTEIN: THE COMPLETE TEXT
  Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts
  The Complete Text [The 1831 Text]
    
PART II: FRANKENSTEIN: A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
  A Critical History of Frankenstein
  A Psychoanalytic Perspective:
    David Collings, "The Monster and the Imaginary Monster: A Lacanian Reading of Frankenstein"
  A Marxist Perspective:
    Warren Montag, "'The Workshop of Filthy Creation': A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein"
  A Feminist Perspective:
    Johanna M. Smith, "'Cooped Up: Feminine Domesticity in Frankenstein"
  New A Gender Critic's Perspective:
    Frann Michel, "Lesbian Panic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
  New A Cultural Critic's Perspective:
    Bouriana Zakharieva, "Frankenstein of the Nineties: The Composite Body"
  New Combining Critical Perspectives:
    Fred Botting, "Reflections of Excess: Frankenstein, the French Revolution, and Monstrosity"
    
  Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms
  About the Contributors