Frankenstein (The Norton Library)

About the Author MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State University and a former president of the Modern Language Association. From 2010 to 2017, he served as the director of Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He is the author of ten books, including What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?, Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education, and Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Janet Lyon, and their son, Jamie Bérubé. Product Description About Shelley’s Frankenstein“I read [Frankenstein] in one sitting, and by the end of it, I was weeping. It was my Road to Damascus. It illuminated the reason I loved monsters, my kinship with them, and showed me how deep, how life-changing, a monster parable could be―how it could function as art and how it could reach across distance and time and become a palliative to solitude and pain. … The exquisite Via Crucis [Shelley] crafted for her creature speaks to all outsiders and will continue to do so for centuries to come.” ― Guillermo del Toro