May 2024: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Please join us in May when we discuss "Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

Image above: Mary Shelley

Location: ZOOM. If you are signed up for this meeting, the link to this event is found by scrolling down to the bottom right-hand side of this webpage. The correct link will not appear until RSVPs are closed.

We are now meeting once a month, almost always the last Tuesday of the month, online via Zoom. [On occasion we might have a meeting at an accessible restaurant in Oakland, probably on a Saturday afternoon.]

The discussion will start at the normal 6:30 PM time. Please sign in 5 minutes early so that we are all ready to start promptly on time. If you have not used Zoom before, it is suggested you download it sometime before the meeting starts.

From the back cover of the Vintage Classics edition:

A haunting work of gothic beauty.

What you create can destroy you.

One freezing morning, a lone man wandering across the Arctic ice caps is rescued from starvation by a ship’s captain. Victor Frankenstein’s story is one of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist he pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only lead to tragedy.

Written when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley’s gothic tale is one of the greatest horror stories ever published.