Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

Original en 74919 words First published 1818 United Kingdom

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at nineteen, from a ghost-story competition on Lake Geneva in 1816, and invented science fiction in the process. Victor Frankenstein, a young Swiss scientist, assembles a living creature from dead matter — and abandons it in horror at what he has made. The creature, educated and eloquent and rejected by every human he meets, turns to revenge. Part Gothic horror, part philosophical inquiry into creation, responsibility and what makes a monster, it has never stopped being relevant: we are still building things we do not fully understand.

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Frankenstein

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