When Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” was published in 1818, it had a first printing of just 500 copies. But this story of the reckoning between a monster and the scientist who created him has cast a durable spell. The “incredibly flexible and adaptable and reworkable” tale has inspired stage and screen versions as well as comic books, drawings, wood engravings and other interpretations, said Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, a curator at the New York Public Library. In “It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200,” an exhibition opening...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 27, 2018 15:56 UTC