Frankenstein Book Discussion: One State / One Story

We're celebrating the 200th anniversary of  Mary Shelley's classic novel, Frankenstein. Barb Roark will lead a discussion. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to read the book in advance. Ask for a copy at the library’s information desk.

The Hancock County Public Library was awarded a "Community Read" grant of $1,000 from Indiana Humanities. One State / One Story: Frankenstein is an Indiana Humanities program and has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and in partnership with the Indiana State Library and Indiana Center for the book. (Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.)

Book description from Amazon:

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who, through a strangely unorthodox experiment, creates a grotesque yet sentient being. Victor, repulsed by the thing that he has created, abandons the monster. The creature, in turn saddened by this rejection, departs as well. What follows is a series of tragic events. There is no greater novel in the monster genre than “Frankenstein” and no more well-known monster than the one that is at the center of this novel. However, the monster of “Frankenstein” is more than the common lumbering moronic giant that is most often represented. Frankenstein’s monster is, in reality, a thinking intelligent being who is tormented by a world in which he does not belong. In this depiction, Shelley draws upon the universal human themes of creation, the nature of existence, and the need for acceptance. For it is without this acceptance that the true monster, the violent nature of humanity, emerges.