Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus The 1818 Text

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published in 1818. The narrative of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who produces a sapient creature in an unconventional scientific experiment, is told in the film Frankenstein. When Shelley was 18, she began writing the narrative, and the first version was published anonymously in London on January 1, 1818, when she was 20. Her name appears for the first time in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.<br/><br/>In 1815, Shelley traveled around Europe, stopping in Gernsheim, Germany, 17 kilometers from Frankenstein Castle, where an alchemist had conducted experiments two centuries previously hardback.