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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of a young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Marry Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Marry Shelley's name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Marry Shelley travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the River Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) 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 scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the novel's story. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. "We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal. The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart." Frankenstein written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a great book highly recommended to read .
Hardcover:
9781910619711, titled "Frankenstein: Or: the Modern Prometheus" | Classic Comic Store Ltd, January 19, 2016, cover price $15.95 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
9781437895070, titled "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $52.99 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
9781436555432 | Reprint edition (Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2008), cover price $39.95 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
9780533108015, titled "Lead Soldier from Buffalo" | Vantage Pr, August 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Lead Soldier from Buffalo
Paperback:
9781523970759, titled "Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus" | Createspace Independent Pub, February 10, 2016, cover price $7.95 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus | About this edition: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
9781523824243, titled "Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus" | Ill edition (Createspace Independent Pub, February 3, 2016), cover price $13.95 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
9781523619658, titled "Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus" | Createspace Independent Pub, January 20, 2016, cover price $7.49 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
9781522856146 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 30, 2015, cover price $6.99 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
9781517492861 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 24, 2015, cover price $9.50 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
22 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)
Reinforced:
9780606129374, titled "Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus" | Reprint edition (Demco Media, September 1, 1995), cover price $13.00 | also contains Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus | About this edition: The story of Dr.
9780606006934, titled "Frankenstein Or, the Modern Prometheus" | Demco Media, July 1, 1994, cover price $11.14 | also contains Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus | About this edition: The story of Dr.
Prebinding:
9780606230773, titled "Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus" | Reprint edition (Turtleback Books, May 12, 2011), cover price $18.40 | also contains Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus
Hardcover:
9781137286857 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 25, 2015), cover price $95.00
Paperback:
9781137286840 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 25, 2015), cover price $30.00
Hardcover:
9781138761940 | Routledge, October 1, 2008, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Brings together three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship.
9781138761964 | Routledge, October 1, 2008, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Brings together three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship.
9781138761933 | Routledge, October 1, 2008, cover price $200.00
9781138761957 | Routledge, October 1, 2008, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: Brings together three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship.
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyone he loves. And the hunter becomes prey in a chase that carries them to the end of the earth.
Paperback:
9780141024448 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 26, 2006), cover price $10.15 | About this edition: Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead.
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