288 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 2009 by Penguin Books, Limited.
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (2009, Penguin Books, Limited)
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- 978-0-14-104511-5
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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
- Fiction
- Frankenstein (fictitious character), fiction
- Geneva (switzerland), fiction
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, horror
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- Scientists, fiction