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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Record Cover: Frankenstein
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Bibliographic Data

STATUS: FINISHED
Pages Count 353
Publisher UNKNOWN
Pub Date 1818-01-01
Date Archived September 1, 2014
Registry ID N/A

Summary

"Mary Shelley (then Godwin) and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With the weather against them, they decided to spend their time writing ghost stories for each other. Frankenstein is Mary Shelley’s submission to their contest, later published anonymously in 1818.

Victor Frankenstein, a strange but brilliant scientist, discovers a method of imparting life to inanimate matter. The Monster is thus born: a hideous, 8-foot-tall creature of muscle, speed, and intellect. Frankenstein’s rejection of his appalling creation sends it into a spiral of despair, and Frankenstein’s life is never the same."-- Provided by Amazon