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Frankenstein (1818 Edition)

by Mary Shelley

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Victor Frankenstein builds a living man out of dead matter, then flees the room the moment it opens its eyes. Everything that follows comes from that flinch. The creature teaches itself to speak and read, discovers it was abandoned before it had done anything wrong, and asks its maker for one thing: a companion. Mary Shelley was twenty when she wrote it, and she gave the monster the most reasonable voice in the book.

This is the original 1818 text, before Shelley revised it in 1831 to soften Victor and add a heavier hand of fate. The earlier version is colder and blames him more directly, which is why many readers and most scholars now prefer it.

Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #41445. The PDF has 202 pages; the EPUB is reflowable.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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First published
1818
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
202
Language
English
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