This is the old, familiar tale of Swiss, medical student, Victor Frankenstein who discovers, by trial-and error, the secret of life (which he never reveals to anyone, lest they repeat his mistake).
Upon this amazing discovery Frankenstein then puts together a body, essentially a man, pieced from various corpses.
Frankenstein is a pretty grim tale that has managed to fascinate man, by its dark and fascinating implications, for centuries.
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus