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Frankenstein
Or The Modern Prometheus
Brief Description
The most famous horror story in world literature—the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster—is also a profoundly moving masterpiece. No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be...
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Frankenstein
"Frankenstein was first published in 1818. This revised edition was first published in 1831"--Copyright page.
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Description
The most famous horror story in world literature—the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster—is also a profoundly moving masterpiece.
No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake.
In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English Romanticism's finest prose fiction.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780307743312
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 September 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Vintage Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
About the Author
MARY SHELLEY was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797 in London, the daughter of William Godwin, a radical philosopher and novelist, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a renowned feminist and the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. As a teenager, she eloped to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814, although they were not married until 1816, after the suicide of his first wife. She began work on Frankenstein in 1816 in Switzerland, while they were staying with Lord Byron, and it was published in 1818 to immediate acclaim. She died in London in 1851.
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