Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

EN·~7 hours·1 chapter

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[Transcriber’s Note: This text was produced from a photo-reprint of the 1818 edition.]

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The 1831 edition is also available: eBook #42324

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~7 hours (406K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.

Release date

2012-11-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41445

Subjects

Science fiction Horror tales Gothic fiction Scientists -- Fiction Monsters -- Fiction Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction PR

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1797–1851

Best known for creating Frankenstein while still very young, this English novelist helped shape both Gothic fiction and early science fiction. Her life moved through radical ideas, grief, travel, and literary fame, and that mix of imagination and experience gives her work its lasting power.

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