282 pages
English language
Published Jan. 30, 1983 by Pennyroyal.
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
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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) -- Fiction
- Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
- Scientists in literature
- Monsters in literature
- Scientists -- Fiction
- Monsters -- Fiction