Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818 text)
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 823/.7
- científicos
- científicos--novela
- english horror tales
- fiction
- fiction, horror
- frankenstein (shelley, mary wollstonecraft)
- frankenstein's monster
- frankenstein’s monster (fictitious character)
- frankenstein, victor
- frankestein (personaje ficticio)
- frankestein (personaje ficticio)--novela
- history
- history and criticism
- hl 4343
- horror tales, english--history and criticism
- long now manual for civilization
- medicine in literature
- monsters
- monsters--fiction
- monsters in literature
- monstruos
- monstruos--novela
- pr5397 .f7 2008e
- pr5397 .f7 2018d
- pr5397.f73 m36 1996
- science in literature
- scientists
- scientists--fiction
- shelley, mary wollstonecraft , 1797-1851
- victor frankenstein (fictitious character)
- women and literature
- women and literature--england--history--19th century
- women and literature--history