eBook, 218 pages
English language
Published Nov. 23, 2012 by Project Gutenberg.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (EBook, 2012, Project Gutenberg)
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.
Subjects
- Frankenstein (Fictitious character)
- Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character)
- Scientists
- Monsters
- Fiction, horror
- Frankenstein (fictitious character), fiction
- Physicians, fiction
- British fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Scientists, fiction
- Geneva (Switzerland), fiction
- Horror stories
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- Fiction, general
- Horror tales
- Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
- English fiction
- Fiction, gothic
- Monsters, fiction
- English literature
- English fiction (collections), 19th century
- Literature and fiction, horror and ghost stories
- Science fiction, history and criticism
- Horror tales, history and criticism
- Monstrous
- History and criticism
- Horror fiction
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, historical, general