Audiobook Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in the ListenBook app
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Book description
April 12th, 2024
Dearest Listener,
I've been wrestling with Frankenstein for weeks now, and this audiobook changed everything. Not the familiar monster story, but the real Frankenstein-the one Mary Shelley wrote at nineteen, raw and furious, before the world softened it. Hearing the 1818 text read aloud, I felt like I'd stumbled into a secret conversation.
The narrator's voice-steady, clear-carried every sharp word Shelley meant. Lines like "I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel" landed differently when spoken, heavy with the weight of a young woman refusing to be erased. You hear her politics: the critique of unchecked ambition, the fear of women's voices being silenced, the way Victor's hubris mirrors the era's colonial violence. The 1831 rewrite toned all that down. This version? It sings.
Then came Charlotte Gordon's introduction, read with such warmth it felt like a letter from a friend. She didn't just explain the text-she defended Shelley, calling her "a radical, not a relic." And Charles Robinson's chronology? A quiet revelation. Learning how Shelley's own life-her mother's feminist writings, her marriage to Percy, the grief she carried-shaped Victor and the Creature? It made the story ache with new meaning.
I'd always thought of Frankenstein as a Gothic horror. This audiobook is a conversation. The Creature's plea-"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel"-isn't just tragic; it's a mirror to every voice the world tries to drown out. And Shelley's wit! When Victor calls himself "a man of science," the narrator's pause before the next line feels like a sigh of shared understanding.
Last night, I listened to the passage where the Creature watches the De Lacey family. The words on the page are powerful, but hearing them-slow, deliberate, with the weight of his loneliness-made my throat tighten. It's not just a story about a monster. It's about who gets to be human.
This edition, with its scholarly grace, doesn't just preserve the text-it restores it. You hear Shelley's anger, her hope, her fierce belief that a woman's mind could shape the world. I kept pausing the audiobook, just to sit with the silence. Because now, I hear her. Not as Percy Shelley's wife, but as the brilliant, necessary mind who wrote these words.
You should hear it too. Not to feel scared, but to feel seen. And maybe, finally, to remember: the most terrifying monster isn't in the lab. It's the one we create when we refuse to listen.
- E.
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