Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.
Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (2001, Pearson ESL)
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Paperback, 64 pages
English language
Published Jan. 22, 2001 by Pearson ESL.
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- ELT graded readers
- Historical adventure
- Modern fiction
- Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
- English as a Second Language
- Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language