Frankenstein; Or The Modern Prometheus: A Gothic novel by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein a young scientist .....see more

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein a young scientist who creates a hideous 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 published in Paris in 1821.Shelley travelled through Europe in ...See More