Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Classic Horror Novel

Author: Mary Shelley

Narrator: Brady Smith

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/31/2026

Synopsis

A Monster Story. A Moral Catastrophe. The Birth of Science Fiction.Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at eighteen years old during the strangest summer in recent memory — stranded on the shores of Lake Geneva with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, during a year of unnatural cold and darkness caused by a volcanic eruption halfway around the world. The ghost story competition Byron proposed that summer produced one entry worth remembering.The result was the first science fiction novel ever written — and one of the most influential books in the English language. Victor Frankenstein, his doomed creature, and the moral catastrophe that unfolds between them have haunted readers for two centuries, and for good reason. This is a story about creation, abandonment, and what happens when ambition outpaces responsibility. Those questions have only gotten more relevant with time.This is the complete, unabridged text of Frankenstein, narrated by Brady Smith for Another World Audiobooks.About the NarratorBrady Smith is the narrator and founder of the popular podcast Another World Audiobooks, where he has been bringing classic literature to life since 2017. With listeners in over 160 countries and hundreds of hours of narration across titles ranging from Sherlock Holmes to Jane Austen, Brady brings warmth, clarity, and genuine love for great storytelling to every production.Want More (FREE!) Awesome Audiobooks in Your Life?Check out AnotherWorldAudiobooks.com! There's so much more to explore - tons of FREE awesome content, a fun community of fellow audiobook lovers, cool merchandise, and more!Plus don't forget to request your FREE audiobook!Check out the podcast on your podcast player of choice - just search "Another World Audiobooks"!

About Mary Shelley

The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, the ardent feminist and author of A Vindication on the Right of Women, and William Goodwin, the radical-anarchist philosopher and author of Lives of the Necromancers, Mary Goodwin was born into a free-thinking, revolutionary household in London on August 30, 1797. Educated mainly by her intellectual surroundings, she had little formal schooling, and at age sixteen, she eloped with the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelly; they eventually married in 1816.

Mary Shelly's life had many tragic elements: her mother died giving birth to Mary; her half-sister committed suicide; Percy's wife Harriet Shelly drowned herself and her unborn child after he ran off with Mary; William Goodwin disowned Mary and Shelly after the elopement but, heavily in debt, recanted and came to them for money; Mary's first child died soon after its birth; and in 1822 Percy Shelly drowned in the Gulf of La Spezia—Mary was not quite twenty-five then.

Mary did not begin to write seriously until the summer of 1816, when she and Shelly were living in Switzerland, neighbors to Lord Byron. One night following a contest to compose ghost stories, Mary conceived her masterpiece, Frankenstein. After her husband's death, she continued to write, publishing Valperga, The Last Man, Ladore, and Faulkner between 1823 and 1837, in addition to editing Percy's works. In 1838 she began to work on his biography, but due to poor health she completed only a fragment.

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