Author | Mary Shelley |
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Language | English |
Published | United Kingdom |
Publisher | Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones |
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley. It is about a creature produced by a strange scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen. It was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.