Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

Hardcover, 304 pages

Published June 1, 2018 by Oxford University Press.

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978-0-19-881404-7
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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.

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