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Frankenstein: (starbooks Classics Editions)

Frankenstein: (starbooks Classics Editions)

Jakas, Algirdas
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Paperback

HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1496135547
ISBN13: 9781496135544
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 4 2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.

Shelley had travelled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein.

Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story, because unlike in previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character makes a deliberate decision and turns to modern experiments in the laboratory to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays.

Since publication of the novel, the name Frankenstein is often used to refer to the monster itself, as is done in the stage adaptation by Peggy Webling. This usage is sometimes considered erroneous, but usage commentators regard the monster sense of Frankenstein as well-established and an acceptable usage. In the novel, the monster is identified via words such as creature, monster, fiend, wretch, vile insect, daemon, being, and it. Speaking to Victor Frankenstein, the monster refers to himself as the Adam of your labors, and elsewhere as someone who would have been your Adam, but is instead your fallen angel.

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