Paper Picks Selected Hardcovers and Paperbacks Frankenstein by Mary Shelley If you haven't read it recently, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelganger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece.

Bio: (1797-1851) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her most famous story, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus at the age of 18, and published it two years later. She was the second wife of the famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She published many other novels and stories to wide acclaim during her lifetime.