Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley | Full Audiobook | The 1818 Text

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  • @gatesofimagination
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  • @Mariloooca
    @Mariloooca 8 месяцев назад +97

    Finally I've found the 1818 version, there is only the 1831 on audible. Thank you very much for this. Lovely voice!

    • @milkman4743
      @milkman4743 7 месяцев назад +2

      what's the difference?

    • @KommanderCiwi
      @KommanderCiwi 7 месяцев назад +6

      @@milkman4743a lot of the wording is changed and skipped

    • @rikkebay8548
      @rikkebay8548 7 месяцев назад +5

      The same reason I'm here. Every audiobook on my paid app where the 1831 version.

    • @G_BOY364
      @G_BOY364 4 месяца назад

      @@rikkebay8548 How much does it affect the storry?

    • @rikkebay8548
      @rikkebay8548 4 месяца назад +1

      @@G_BOY364 Uh I have a hard time remembering now. I remember some of it had to do with Frankenstein's fiance. But the main reason it annoyed me was I was reading and listening at the same time and there were added new sentences to elaborate, which disturbed my reading. People nowadays say the original is the one to read from what I gathered on the internet.

  • @RideHanna
    @RideHanna 4 месяца назад +29

    Wow, that was a stunning reading, read just the right degree of detachment. I can’t believe this incredible story has been so distorted by T.V and Film adaptations. It’s better and way more powerful than any interpretation I have seen.

  • @machine9736
    @machine9736 Год назад +75

    Thank you genuinly, the audiobooks that you share for free on your channel are of the highest quality. This helped me greatly because I have some trouble with focusing while I read, and this is the perfect solution.

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 Год назад

      I'm the opposite of you. I struggle with audiobooks. But this was excellent! If not for Real Life having to be dealt with, I would've sat here and listened to the whole thing straight through!

  • @sugarfalls1
    @sugarfalls1 Год назад +21

    Arthur, you are a masterful narrator! Thank you so much for reading this long novel!

  • @larryparis925
    @larryparis925 Год назад +61

    The literary sophistication and depth of expression are truly amazing.

    • @lervish1966
      @lervish1966 10 месяцев назад

      Shelley was a great poet.

  • @solacecoupethwaite7273
    @solacecoupethwaite7273 11 месяцев назад +24

    It is sad how modern renditions twist the story so much that it is unrecognizable.

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 Год назад +21

    I am just finding this today! I am reading the book for the very first time and am enjoying it so far. I wanted to see if there was an audiobook to go along with it. It helps me to both read it and hear it. I'm only about 30 minutes into this, but it's fantastic! Thank you.

  • @valrahosman6463
    @valrahosman6463 Год назад +23

    I am greatful I found your site. Thank you for your superb reading.

  • @Natacha1111
    @Natacha1111 10 месяцев назад +19

    Why all these comments whether she wrote it or not? She did write it. Sometimes you get one good inspiration as an author or creative and that’s it.

    • @dotkiarika1026
      @dotkiarika1026 9 месяцев назад +23

      It's just misogyny. They hate that Mary seems to have bigger perceived impact on modern culture than Percy even though he himself is already respected in his field.

    • @wednesdaygeckok.7899
      @wednesdaygeckok.7899 6 месяцев назад

      ​​​@@dotkiarika1026 its not misogyny, thats a really low IQ take. Its literally just modern contearianism where they see one person say look see maybe she didnt and they start frothing at the mouth because they get to carry the same energy as "um actually Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster." Its intellectual superiority, not gender. You wanna apply misogyny to it because you lack fundamental understanding of modern men and it makes you feel smart and superior, try to deny it all you want but.. You're fighting boogeymen thus doing the exact same thing as the "misogynist" people you decided to wage social war against
      You and your kind have entirely devalued the word misogyny so much that real misogyny is ignored to focus on tiny issues that you willy nilly apply a label to
      Congrats, you contributed to misogyny

    • @anamakesthings
      @anamakesthings 5 месяцев назад +4

      Miserable little people living miserable little lives. They will never achieve 0.01% of this author's success and it's more comforting to pretend like this isn't a thing because it means they don't have miserable little confrontations about their own lives 😊

  • @Senacacrane
    @Senacacrane Месяц назад

    Thank you for uploading this. I truly enjoy this audiobook. Most other versions of this audiobook are just not well done. But this one is very well done. Thank you. Keep us the good work❤

  • @M1CR0P0P
    @M1CR0P0P 3 месяца назад +2

    thank you for the audiobook, i literally could not read this without giving up it’s so hard to read

  • @TheoAnderson-v8j
    @TheoAnderson-v8j 10 месяцев назад +2

    I could listen to your voice all day. I've just finished the dracula audiobook and dracula's guest with you guys, I can't wait to hear them all :D

  • @joshuawilliams2222
    @joshuawilliams2222 9 месяцев назад +2

    Impeccable narration, thank you.

  • @JaneFrieman
    @JaneFrieman Месяц назад

    I always admired your style and personal accent Mr. Arthur Lane.

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 18 дней назад

    This was their challenge to her. Mary Shelley and she ultimate delivered the novel Frankenstein

  • @lifeofbekahh
    @lifeofbekahh 28 дней назад +1

    Currently reading Frankenstein for the first time 😊📖

  • @majhedelokgeet2698
    @majhedelokgeet2698 Год назад

    Thank you so much for uploading

  • @hermitsunite953
    @hermitsunite953 Год назад +19

    not gonna lie, this felt like a Wattpad fanfiction.

  • @kerrijones1726
    @kerrijones1726 Год назад +96

    Amazingly written...for someone so young.

    • @lervish1966
      @lervish1966 10 месяцев назад +1

      I agree - PBS wrote it.

    • @wednesdaygeckok.7899
      @wednesdaygeckok.7899 6 месяцев назад

      Bruh i know young people 30x smarter than any boomer cut that shit out. You've never made anything you dont have the perspective to make that apathetic backhanded compliment

    • @samuelbonaccorso9969
      @samuelbonaccorso9969 4 месяца назад

      Absolutely

    • @TrevorDries
      @TrevorDries 2 месяца назад +1

      Its alright

  • @chloecam101
    @chloecam101 9 месяцев назад +9

    Is it just me or are the chapters wrong

    • @sorolla_
      @sorolla_ 3 месяца назад

      how so?

    • @chloecam101
      @chloecam101 3 месяца назад

      @@sorolla_ it was out of order or sumn. Idk this is old

    • @sorolla_
      @sorolla_ 3 месяца назад

      @@chloecam101 oh

    • @everettlira7157
      @everettlira7157 2 месяца назад +3

      @@chloecam101lil late but there are 2 different books, this is the 1818 version

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 18 дней назад

    Inspired. The story here is well known. She hung out with Lord Shelley and Lord Byron. At luxurious Switzerland estates

  • @magicbulletdancers
    @magicbulletdancers Год назад +2

    Thank you. Excellent ❤

  • @gin6270
    @gin6270 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you, thank you very very much.

  • @martind5565
    @martind5565 Год назад +6

    Any1 else think Viktors a bit of an asshole! Great reading, thanks :D

  • @JackT13
    @JackT13 4 месяца назад +24

    Quite eerie listening to an AI voice narrate a story about the hubris of man in his creation of artificial life…

    • @mia_mozzerella8924
      @mia_mozzerella8924 3 месяца назад +18

      The narrator is credited in the description, I don’t believe it’s AI

    • @SkiBat64
      @SkiBat64 Месяц назад +4

      Bruh just read the description before you comment. Lazy

    • @JackT13
      @JackT13 Месяц назад

      If you can listen to this and think that this is an actual human voice then we are in more trouble than I thought.

    • @mia_mozzerella8924
      @mia_mozzerella8924 Месяц назад +5

      @@JackT13look up Arthur Lane. The paranoia is just as frightening.

    • @JackT13
      @JackT13 Месяц назад

      @@mia_mozzerella8924 it is modelled on him. You can literally hear many occasions in this recording where the system glitches and mispronounces words

  • @maxwellmosley5633
    @maxwellmosley5633 Год назад +1

    Well Readied thank you Arthur Lane

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 Год назад +2

    Thanks!

    • @gatesofimagination
      @gatesofimagination  Год назад

      Thank you very much ♥️

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 Год назад +1

      You're welcome. I don't usually do audiobooks. But this has been a wonderful companion to having just read the book for the very first time. I have about 2 hours left to go.@@gatesofimagination

  • @SnakeAndTurtleQigong
    @SnakeAndTurtleQigong Год назад

    Thanks so much

  • @deewhite4346
    @deewhite4346 Год назад +3

    Wow thank you.

  • @SpaceIntelligenceChannel
    @SpaceIntelligenceChannel 3 месяца назад +1

    FINALLY 6:54:21 THE END

  • @anon64mus66
    @anon64mus66 Год назад +2

    Yesssss, I wanted this one. Thank you!

  • @jxmxnisbxe2775
    @jxmxnisbxe2775 Год назад

    Walter is excited to learn from Professor Waldman. Attends his lectures

    • @jxmxnisbxe2775
      @jxmxnisbxe2775 Год назад

      Walter is excited to learn from Professor Waldman. Attends his lectures. Initially, Walter learned a branch of science purely because of his attraction to Waldman’s teaching style. Eventually, Walter finds genuine charm in the study and purses it along with others. Two years later, he becomes as well versed as the university’s professors in science. Walter improves chemical instruments.
      Having learned everything, Walter decided to return home to live among his friends but before he leaves he is suddenly intrigued by human anatomy their remains. Begins visiting charnel houses (houses human skeletal remains).

    • @jxmxnisbxe2775
      @jxmxnisbxe2775 Год назад

      Sudden discovery of what makes humans living and fascinated with bringing dead matter back alive.

  • @JurdTV
    @JurdTV Месяц назад

    Bookmark 1:51:40

  • @akaashikeijiluvr
    @akaashikeijiluvr 8 месяцев назад

    bookmarks:
    31:23

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 18 дней назад

    They forgot the prometheus part in the modern updated movie versions.

  • @achalshaw9373
    @achalshaw9373 Год назад

    Thank you

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 18 дней назад

    When ilistenilistenwith my ears then i skid into courage and am firm

  • @EverboughART
    @EverboughART Месяц назад

    3:27:43 bookmark

  • @crc1858
    @crc1858 Месяц назад

    Bookmarks 1:08:05

    • @crc1858
      @crc1858 29 дней назад

      2:06:02

    • @crc1858
      @crc1858 28 дней назад

      3:04:34

    • @crc1858
      @crc1858 27 дней назад

      4:09:07

    • @crc1858
      @crc1858 26 дней назад

      5:06:44

    • @crc1858
      @crc1858 25 дней назад

      6:19:27

  • @plebasaurues
    @plebasaurues 2 месяца назад

    48:39 Bookmark 🎉

  • @plebasaurues
    @plebasaurues 2 месяца назад

    29:08 book mark ❤

  • @Alis_Corli
    @Alis_Corli Год назад +1

    shout out to 2023 HMJ102 students lmao

  • @rustymason3860
    @rustymason3860 Год назад +8

    A masterpiece, both in content and writing style. Mary Shelley never wrote like this before or since, leading many to speculate that she didn't actually write Frankenstein by herself.

    • @paulschnyder938
      @paulschnyder938 Год назад +2

      Yes, it's difficult to believe. I suppose We'll never know for sure.

    • @virgogaming6488
      @virgogaming6488 Год назад

      She most likely had help, it does feel like a teenager wrote it.

    • @rezzer7918
      @rezzer7918 Год назад +2

      I guess Percy really loved her 😉

    • @lervish1966
      @lervish1966 10 месяцев назад

      She wrote the boring bits.

    • @Eliot-d1r
      @Eliot-d1r 8 месяцев назад +6

      @@virgogaming6488Mary Shelley was the sole author of Frankenstein, as a mountain of scholarship attests.

  • @theoneeyerx2568
    @theoneeyerx2568 Год назад +1

    3:56:00

  • @peterdevin6910
    @peterdevin6910 Год назад

    This is abridged and a bit confusing - it jumps around A LOT.

    • @gatesofimagination
      @gatesofimagination  Год назад +12

      This is not an abridged version but the first edition of Frankenstein from 1818. There is another version of this novel, revised by Shelley and reissued in 1831, containing many changes and considered by some readers to be more comprehensible, while others view it as a censored version. This is likely the source of confusion.

  • @andreashinault5678
    @andreashinault5678 Год назад

    I've been thinking of reading some Poe aloud and posting it. Has that been already too "done"?

    • @gatesofimagination
      @gatesofimagination  Год назад

      Poe is a widely recorded author. The competition is high. On the other hand, all of his works are in the Public Domain, so you can always give it a try.

    • @andreashinault5678
      @andreashinault5678 Год назад +2

      @@gatesofimagination I wonder then, is there an author that is seldom read that I could take on? I am a lady and have a southern accent. I've been told I have a good voice.

    • @gatesofimagination
      @gatesofimagination  Год назад +8

      We conducted research in this matter, and believe me, if we were to find a popular author in the Public Domain who hasn't been recorded yet, we would do it ourselves. It seems that a better approach is to record what one personally enjoys 😉

    • @rezzer7918
      @rezzer7918 Год назад

      Not done enough!

    • @rezzer7918
      @rezzer7918 Год назад +2

      ​@@andreashinault5678Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Whose Afraid of Vurginia Wolfe. Man and Superman. Proverbs from the Bible.

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 18 дней назад

    Metaphysics does not use normal sentence structure

  • @rezzer7918
    @rezzer7918 Год назад +2

    Great story by Percy Shelley 😉

    • @lervish1966
      @lervish1966 10 месяцев назад

      He only wrote the best bits.

    • @Eliot-d1r
      @Eliot-d1r 8 месяцев назад +6

      No. Mary Shelley was the sole author of Frankenstein, as a mountain of scholarship attests.

  • @leafleafkris
    @leafleafkris Год назад

    that was wild omfg

  • @JohnWitham-dr4es
    @JohnWitham-dr4es 2 месяца назад

    This book is the missing link🪶

  • @plebasaurues
    @plebasaurues 2 месяца назад

    1:01:26 bonkmark

  • @xotwod3254
    @xotwod3254 11 месяцев назад

    5:13:37

  • @benfranklinsleftnut7458
    @benfranklinsleftnut7458 11 месяцев назад +1

    .75 speed

  • @ExMachina70
    @ExMachina70 9 месяцев назад +1

    Read the book and you soon begin to realize that the 1931 movie completely sucked that had no vision that Mary Shelly had back when she was only 19 years when she wrote the book.

    • @Eliot-d1r
      @Eliot-d1r 8 месяцев назад

      She was 17!

  • @tatumespino6705
    @tatumespino6705 9 месяцев назад

    31:23 bookmark

  • @Sarah-uk7im
    @Sarah-uk7im 2 месяца назад

    20:56

  • @RobertsonMilkshakes
    @RobertsonMilkshakes 18 дней назад

    Subconscious subliminal stuff. Probably channeling of a very good writer a woman of something else that spoke

  • @AerisNotAerith
    @AerisNotAerith 9 месяцев назад

    53:39

  • @So-Be-It_890
    @So-Be-It_890 7 месяцев назад +1

    1818

  • @abbychristensen8476
    @abbychristensen8476 9 месяцев назад

    38:48

  • @machstem2536
    @machstem2536 29 дней назад

    2.42

  • @trishagharami2643
    @trishagharami2643 7 месяцев назад

    40:44

  • @ИринаКим-ъ5ч
    @ИринаКим-ъ5ч Месяц назад

    Martinez Michelle Allen Sarah Wilson Helen

  • @NotWhite-dt3tu
    @NotWhite-dt3tu Год назад

    By gates of envy and desperation 👽💖😇😘😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😂🤣😅

  • @JeffShamley
    @JeffShamley Месяц назад

    I don’t care for it

  • @danthoreson4062
    @danthoreson4062 Год назад +3

    no way mary shelly wrote this

    • @lervish1966
      @lervish1966 10 месяцев назад

      She co-wrote it.

    • @ASUtatumaguilar
      @ASUtatumaguilar 8 месяцев назад

      don't hate on the girlbossing @@lervish1966

    • @Eliot-d1r
      @Eliot-d1r 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@lervish1966Mary Shelley was the sole author of Frankenstein, as a mountain of scholarship attests.

  • @movie.reference
    @movie.reference Месяц назад

    3:27:49 bookmark

  • @jxmxnisbxe2775
    @jxmxnisbxe2775 Год назад +1

    1:01:47

  • @alexanderasher8037
    @alexanderasher8037 Год назад +1

    3:05:30

  • @sebmac7987
    @sebmac7987 8 месяцев назад

    4:13:11

  • @syndelgeline
    @syndelgeline 8 месяцев назад

    29:54

  • @bittsm7211
    @bittsm7211 9 месяцев назад

    2:34:38

  • @rangofanatic
    @rangofanatic Год назад

    3:09:00

  • @salomni
    @salomni 4 месяца назад

    2:11:53

  • @plebasaurues
    @plebasaurues Месяц назад

    1:48:38

  • @sebmac7987
    @sebmac7987 8 месяцев назад

    3:27:30

  • @insanatty
    @insanatty 2 месяца назад

    1:34:30

  • @StormPrime
    @StormPrime 8 месяцев назад

    1:30:00