Frankenstein

Raised on crude Frankenstein fantasies, older listeners will be fascinated by the abridged original presented here with controlled emotion by Richard Pasco. Its alternative, forgotten title 'The Modern Prometheus' indicates its serious theme: that Man's over-reaching ambition to play God will end in catastrophe. The monstrous being young Frankenstein creates is condemned to isolation and misery for which he wreaks terrible vengeance on his creator by killing those innocents whom Frankenstein loves. It's a wonderful amalgam of Gothic myths, gripping and moving, and a stunning achievement for a writer in her nineteenth year.