Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Shelley\'s name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823..
The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818.
Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment