Everything you need to know to read Frankenstein Iseult Gillespie

View full lesson: In 1815, Lord Byron proposed a challenge to a few literary guests he had gathered in his house on Lake Geneva: Who could write the most chilling ghost story This question sparked an idea in eighteenyearold Mary Shelley who, over the next few months, crafted the story of Frankenstein. Iseult Gillespie shares everything you need to know to read Mary Shelleys classic novel. Lesson by Iseult Gillespie, animation by Silvia Prietov.