Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, w...