Frankenstein (The Original 1818 Phoenix Classics)
Mary Shelley ; Phoenix Classics
- This
- book
- contains
- several
- tables
- of
- HTML
- content
- to
- make
- reading
- easier.
- Frankenstein;
- or,
- The
- Modern
- Prometheus
- is
- the
- original
- 1818
- 'Uncensored'
- Edition
- of
- Frankenstein
- as
- first
- published
- anonymously
- in
- 1818.
- This
- original
- version
- is
- much
- more
- true
- to
- the
- spirit
- of
- the
- author's
- original
- intentions
- than
- the
- heavily
- revised
- 1831
- edition,
- edited
- by
- Shelley,
- in
- part,
- because
- of
- pressure
- to
- make
- the
- story
- more
- conservative.
- Many
- scholars
- prefer
- the
- 1818
- text
- to
- the
- more
- common
- 1831
- edition.
- Frankenstein;
- or,
- The
- Modern
- Prometheus
- is
- a
- novel
- written
- by
- Mary
- Shelley
- about
- a
- creature
- produced
- by
- an
- unorthodox
- scientific
- experiment.
- Shelley
- started
- writing
- the
- story
- when
- she
- was
- nineteen,
- and
- the
- novel
- was
- published
- when
- she
- was
- twenty-one.
- The
- first
- edition
- was
- published
- anonymously
- in
- London
- in
- 1818.
- Shelley's
- name
- appears
- on
- the
- second
- edition,
- published
- in
- France
- in
- 1823.
- Shelley
- had
- travelled
- in
- the
- region
- of
- Geneva,
- where
- much
- of
- the
- story
- takes
- place,
- and
- the
- topics
- of
- galvanism
- and
- other
- similar
- occult
- ideas
- were
- themes
- of
- conversation
- among
- her
- companions,
- particularly
- her
- future
- husband,
- Percy
- Shelley.
- The
- storyline
- emerged
- from
- a
- dream.
- Mary,
- Percy,
- Lord
- Byron,
- and
- John
- Polidori
- decided
- to
- have
- a
- competition
- to
- see
- who
- could
- write
- the
- best
- horror
- story.
- After
- thinking
- for
- weeks
- about
- what
- her
- possible
- storyline
- could
- be,
- Shelley
- dreamt
- about
- a
- scientist
- who
- created
- life
- and
- was
- horrified
- by
- what
- he
- had
- made.
- She
- then
- wrote Frankenstein.
