Rank 53 of 100
Frankenstein
Also known as Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Synopsis
Victor Frankenstein builds a living being out of ambition and then refuses to look at what he has made. Shelley’s creature is articulate, abandoned, and eventually murderous, and the novel keeps returning to the same question: who is responsible for a life you started and would not claim.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1818
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Gothic, Science fiction
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 19th century
- Movement
- Romantic
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 280 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read novels in English
- Kind
- Fiction