Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley historical fiction writers and thinkers

writers and thinkers

and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances

a melancholy tale shot through with glimmers of joy

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Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley historical fiction writers and thinkersFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, first published anonymously in London, but more often known by the revised third edition of 1831 under her own name. It is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an