Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4), credited to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read in English by John Van Stan This is a classic (gothic) horror story, and one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The main characters are Dr. Frankenstein and his creation, the daemon. Shelley called the scientist a "pale student of unhallowed arts" and his creation a "hideous phantasm of a man." This story is not only delightfully frightful, but arguably represents one of the clearest criticisms of science during a time when, like the daemon, it was leaving its own infancy and, like Dr. Frankenstein, testing its ethical boundaries. As Shelley said, "Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handywork, horror-stricken." - Summary by jvanstan

Recording facts

• Recording title: Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Version 4)
• Author credits: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 10:00:53

Catalogue topics

• Monster
• alchemy
• scientist
• experimentation
• sapient creature
• reanimation
• corpses

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Introduction and Preface — 20:40
2. 01 - Letter 1 — 9:30
3. 02 - Letter 2 — 10:13
4. 03 - Letter 3 — 2:35
5. 04 - Letter 4 — 20:35
6. 05 - Chapter 1 — 12:43
7. 06 - Chapter 2 — 16:30
8. 07 - Chapter 3 — 19:37
9. 08 - Chapter 4 — 17:55
10. 09 - Chapter 5 — 17:15
11. 10 - Chapter 6 — 19:50
12. 11 - Chapter 7 — 28:38
13. 12 - Chapter 8 — 22:55
14. 13 - Chapter 9 — 16:00
15. 14 - Chapter 10 — 18:46
16. 15 - Chapter 11 — 22:40
17. 16 - Chapter 12 — 17:08
18. 17 - Chapter 13 — 16:55
19. 18 - Chapter 14 — 13:30
20. 19 - Chapter 15 — 26:15
21. 20 - Chapter 16 — 25:59
22. 21 - Chapter 17 — 15:30
23. 22 - Chapter 18 — 21:30
24. 23 - Chapter 19 — 17:56

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