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Frankenstein is a novel written by Mary Shelley. Released in 1818 (with a revised version released in 1831, which most versions of Frankenstein reprint), it tells of its titular protagonist creating a living creature out of dead flesh. Frankenstein is one of the most well-known works of the Gothic genre and the 19th century in general.

Characters[]

  • Victor Frankenstein - a German scientist with an obsession with creating life
  • The Creature - the creature created by Victor Frankenstein
  • Captain Robert Walton - the narrator of the frame story
  • Margaret Walton Saville - Captain Walton's sister
  • Elizabeth Lavenza Frankenstein - Victor's adoptive sister whom he loves
  • Henry Clerval - Victor's childhood friend
  • Ernest and William Frankenstein - Victor's brothers
  • Justine Moritz - Victor's nanny
  • Alphone Frankenstein - Victor's father
  • Caroline Beaufort - Victor's mother

Publisher's summary[]

'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr. John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.

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See also[]

  • The Vampyre by John William Pollidori
  • A Fragment by George Gordon Byron
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
  • Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Sources[]

  • Wikipedia
  • Goodreads
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