Mary Shelley was only 18 years old when she started this tale. The first edition of “Frankenstein” would be published two years later, while Mary Shelley’s name would first appear on the book’s second edition in 1821.
A second edition, with some changes, was published in 1831, when Mary Shelley was thirty-four.Who Wrote Frankenstein? Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Romantic writer Mary Shelley. Shelley was only eighteen years old when she wrote the story, which is now considered one...
Frankensteinis a science fiction novel by English Romantic writerMary Shelley. Shelley first published her novel in 1818 but then created a revised edition in 1832 that is more widely read today. There are several differences between the two versions, some of which were informed by criticism that...
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley first published in 1818. The Gothic horror and science-fiction story follows a scientific genius dogged by insanity who brings to life a monster that torments him. An inter
Frankenstein, American horror film, released in 1931, that was based on a stage adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The film’s hulking monster, portrayed by Boris Karloff with a flat head and
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Romanticism inEnglish literaturebegan in the 1790s with the publication of theLyrical BalladsofWilliam WordsworthandSamuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth’s “Preface” to the second edition (1800) ofLyrical Ballads, in which he described poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,” becam...