Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

  • Release Date: 2008-06-17
  • Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.