| Orig Title |
Frankenstein
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| Descript |
3 volumes ; 19 cm (12mo) |
| Note |
Published anonymously. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. |
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With half-titles. |
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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?" |
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Printer statement from title page verso of volume 1; place of printing follows printer. |
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Pagination: volume 1: xii, 181, [3] pages; volume 2: [4], 156 pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages. |
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Signatures: volume 1: [A]⁶ B-H¹² I⁶ K²; volume 2: [A]² B-G¹² H⁶; volume 3: [A]² B-I¹² K². |
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Publisher's advertisements on 2 unnumbered pages at end of volume 1 and 2 unnumbered pages at the end of volume 3. |
| Summary |
Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus" (1818) is a combination of gothic horror story and science fiction first conceived for a writing challenge by Lord Byron when she was just eighteen. It is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who assembles pieces of corpses to create an artificial man and brings it to life with galvanism. Though it seeks affection, the unnamed monster inspires loathing in everyone it meets. Lonely and miserable, the creature ultimately destroys its creator. |
| References |
Wise, T.J. Shelley library, page 8 |
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Summers, M. Gothic bibliography, page 330 |
| Subject |
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Scientists -- Fiction.
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Monsters -- Fiction.
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| Other Author |
Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mayor & Jones, publisher.
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Macdonald and Son (London, England), printer.
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British Factory (Lisbon, Portugal), former owner
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| Other Title |
Modern Prometheus |
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