202 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 1831 by H. Colburn and R. Bentley.
Frankenstein
or, the modern Prometheus.
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by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1831, H. Colburn and R. Bentley)
- OCLC Number:
- 8510883
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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.