Victor Frankenstein animates a creature from dead matter, then abandons it — and the being's lonely education and vengeance drive them both to ruin across the ice.
Books mentioned in Frankenstein (5)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter.”
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch: “Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter.”
Ruins of Empires by Constantin-François Volney: “The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's Ruins of Empires.”
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith: “…I believe I left him incredulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that of the Dutch schoolmaster in The Vicar of Wakefield: 'I have ten thousand florins a year without Greek, I eat heartily without Greek.”
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “they consisted of _Paradise Lost_, a volume of _Plutarch’s Lives_, and the _Sorrows of Werter_.”
Books that mention Frankenstein (5)
It by Stephen King: “It's Frankenstein!" And so it was, it was the Frankenstein monster, with bolts coming out of its neck...”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari: “In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, the story of a scientist who creates an artificial being that goes out of control”
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “He greatly enjoyed Mary Shelley's Frankenstein”