Our choices reach beyond the present moment and seize more than just ourselves. Such is the significant lesson taught in the classic story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Shelley woos the reader’s attention and compellingly welcomes all into the world she creates through her vivid narrative, gripping plot, and memorable themes. The novel offers a powerful storyline that captures the dangers of obsession, unwillingness to act when evil first presents itself, the need for ethical input to direct the power of science, and the cost of losing the beauty of family and the enjoyment of life’s simple pleasures through a single act of self-centeredness.

My copy has a little more than 200 pages, which I completed in four hours, and every minute was well spent. I believe it will be the same for you.