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, when she was 20 Her name first
appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821
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