Frankenstein ambrose of the lapping of time

of the lapping of time at our ankles

This volume pairs his gripping justification with a firsthand account of his own dramatic assassination a decade later—plus a selection of his poetry—painting a full portrait of one of literature’s most complex antiheroes

nothing of my own

As his days unfold in predictable routine

Frankenstein ambrose of the lapping of timeObsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It