Frankenstein: the monster that never dies
Two hundred years after Mary Shelley first imagined him, her creature continues to be reborn
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein. By Fiona Sampson. Profile Books; 304 pages; £18.99. To be published in America by Pegasus Books in June; $28.95.
Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. By Kathryn Harkup. Bloomsbury Sigma; 304 pages; $27 and £16.99.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “The monster in the mirror”
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