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Frankenstein

For other uses, see Frankenstein, Saxony.

Frankenstein's monster
in the first movie adaptation, ()

AuthorMary Shelley
LanguageEnglish
GenreGothic, Horror, Romance, science fiction
PublishedUnited Kingdom
PublisherLackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones

Publication date

11 March
Media&#;typePrint

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley.

Frankenstein | Character & Facts | Britannica

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 Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in

Shelley had travelled in the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place.

Ideas about occultism were topics of conversation among her travelling companions, especially her future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byro frankensteins biography1 CEQ