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During the Carlist war of the early 1870s, a young sailor, the unnamed protagonist, joins the champions of Don Carlos de Bourbon, pretender to the throne of Spain. The Carlists use the eager youth’s intense attraction to the sea to persuade him to run perilous enterprises for their cause, ventures he later learns have been financed by the beautiful mistress and heiress of a rich man’s fortune.

Determined to make his mark on Science, young student Victor Frankenstein fabricates a creature out of old body parts. His dreams are crushed, however, when he realizes he has created a monster. He runs to the streets, horrified, but when he returns the monster is gone. In time, their paths will cross again, at the price of several innocent lives. Mary Shelley famously started writing `Frankenstein‘ (1818) for a contest when she was on a rainy holiday with other writers in Lord Byron‘s villa in Switzerland. Two years later at the age of 20 she had it published. Since the novel's publication, the name «Frankenstein» has often mistakenly been used to refer to the monster itself, who is, in fact, nameless.