Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
About this work
This is the original edition which was published in 3 volumes. The cover photograph is of Volume 1. Published anonymously. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. First edition. With half-titles. Title page with quote from Milton's Paradise Lost: "Did I request thee, maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?" Printer statement from title page verso of volume 1; place of printing follows printer. Pagination: volume 1: xii, 181, [3] pages; volume 2: [4], 156 pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages. Publisher's advertisements on 2 unnumbered pages at end of volume 1 and 2 unnumbered pages at the end of volume 3.
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Edition identifiers ISBN-13 9781442938410
Subjects
- Frankenstein, victor
- Frankenstein's monster
- Shelley, mary wollstonecraft , 1797-1851
- Scientists
- Scientists--fiction
- Monsters
- Monsters--fiction
- Medicine in literature
- Science in literature
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- 823/.7
- Frankestein (personaje ficticio)