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This is the <em>Revised 1831 Edition of FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS</em>, a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km away from Frankenstein Castle, where, two centuries before, an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)-where much of the story takes place-and the topic of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a s

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Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Publisher

Sweden: Wisehouse Classics

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789176370711

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Drama, Thriller

Rating

4.6 / 5 (163 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14