Contributor(s): Author: Mary Shelley Introduction by: Sir Walter Scott Mary Shelley\'s "Frankenstein" is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who through a strangely unorthodox experiment creates a grotesque yet sentient being.
There is no greater novel.
What follows is a series of tragic events.
The creature in turn saddened by this rejection, departs as well.
Victor, repulsed by the thing that he has created, abandons the monster.
Contributor(s): Author: Mary Shelley Introduction by: Sir Walter Scott Mary Shelley\'s "Frankenstein" is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who through a strangely unorthodox experiment creates a grotesque yet sentient being