Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus (Illustrated) by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

Résumé du livre

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (illustrated) is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who creates a grotesque artificial man/creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment using pieces of corpses. The book is a combination of Gothic horror and science fiction and is written in the form of a frame story. Though it initially seeks affection, the monster inspires loathing in everyone who meets it. Lonely and miserable, the monster turns upon its creator, who eventually loses his life. 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.