Victor Frankenstein, A Young Swiss Student Of The Natural Sciences, Experiments With Inanimate Forms, Attempting To Discover The Secret Of Life. In Doing So, He Creates A Huge, Hideous Creature Which, Scorned By Everyone Because Of Its Ugliness, Vows To Spend The Rest Of Its Life Seeking Revenge Against The Human Race.--back Cover. [by] Mary W. Shelley. Bibliography: P. [xxi]-xxii.