Mary Shelley's novel opens and closes in the Arctic, with a ship's captain writing down the story a dying man tells him about the thing he once made.
Victor Frankenstein assembles a living being, recoils from it, and spends the rest of the book pursued by what follows, while the creature itself is given a long stretch of narrative in which to explain how it came to be what it is. That nested structure, letters holding a confession holding a monster's testimony, is a large part of why the book still rewards close reading rather than only summary. Fingerprint! Publishing presents it as a 272-page deluxe hardbound edition for readers who want the full text in a durable binding.
Worth noting:
• A frame narrative told through letters from an Arctic expedition
• The creature given extended testimony in its own voice
• The complete text in a 272-page hardbound presentation
• A production intended for shelving and gifting rather than travel
Suited to Gothic fiction readers, literature students and collectors of hardbound classics, published by Fingerprint! Publishing and available at Boipoka.