An edition of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
(1818)
Frankenstein
or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
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“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” It starts one freezing morning, a man wanders alone across the Arctic ice and is rescued from starvation by a captain of a ship. Dr. Victor Frankenstein's story is one of ambition, hubris, murder, alienation and revenge. As a younger scientist he breaks moral boundaries in order to mimic God and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-robbed body parts who has no place in the world, and his life can only lead to tragedy and isolation. Mary Shelley's gothic tale is one of the greatest horror stories ever published and considered by some to be the first science fiction novel.
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Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus
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Frankenstein (with an Introduction by Sir Walter Scott)
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Frankenstein: Webster's Thesaurus Edition
January 30, 2006, Icon Reference
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Frankenstein
2005, ICON Classics
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Frankenstein
December 31, 1995, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo
1994, Edicomunicación
Texto impreso
in Spanish
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The annotated Frankenstein
1977, C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, Clarkson N. Potter, C.N. Potter, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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- 1st ed.
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a 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, which was published in Paris in 1821.
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