TY - BOOK AU - Shelley,Mary Wollstonecraft TI - Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus AV - PR PY - 2013/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Horror tales KW - Gothic fiction KW - Scientists -- Fiction KW - Monsters -- Fiction KW - Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction KW - Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction N1 - The 1818 edition is also available: eBook #41445; Wikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein; Release date is 2013-03-13; Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Originally published; United Kingdom: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 N2 - "Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a Gothic novel published in 1818. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox experiment. When the creature awakens, Victor flees in horror, setting in motion a tragic chain of events. The creature, initially innocent, learns language and seeks acceptance but faces only rejection. Embittered by humanity's cruelty, he demands his creator take responsibility, leading to devastating consequences that reach from Geneva to the Arctic. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42324 ER -