Frankenstein — Studio AI narration
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
About this work
Frankenstein is a public-domain work, here read aloud in a studio AI narration (a new AI performance, not the author’s recorded voice).
Who was Mary Shelley?
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) wrote Frankenstein at eighteen, in answer to a ghost-story challenge on a rain-ruined Geneva summer, and in it founded science fiction. Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, widow of the poet Percy Shelley by twenty-four, she supported herself and her son by her pen.
About the voice
This edition uses a studio AI voice, not a restoration of Mary Shelley's recording. It is a new AI performance, not a recording of the author reading this work.
Provenance: Studio AI voice. We label every voice by the source used for this edition — restored, studio AI, or disputed.
Questions
Is this Mary Shelley’s recorded voice?
This edition uses a studio AI voice, not a restoration of Mary Shelley's recording. It is a new AI performance, not a recording of the author reading this work.
Is Frankenstein in the public domain?
Yes. Frankenstein is in the public domain; what Iconic Voices adds is AI narration and curation.
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