Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (1818)
Surely
the most famous novel to be written by a teenager. Banned in South Africa in
the 1950’s for “obscenity” and controversial in the US because it depicts the
creation of life by one other than God. A wearying read these days, but the
(unnamed) monster is an essential archetype. The replicants in Bladerunner pondering the nature of
their consciousness are in a direct line from Shelley.
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