Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus (English Edition)

By: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus - selected by the BBC as one of the 100 Novels That Shaped Our World - is the timeless tale of a young scientist who creates life and recoils in horror at his own work. The abandoned creature turns against its maker, and their struggle unfolds across icy landscapes and shadowed laboratories. Blending Gothic terror with deep philosophical reflection, Shelley's masterpiece explores ambition, responsibility, and the limits of human progress. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is still widely studied and referenced today. This is the English-language paperback edition of her classic novel, following the definitive 1831 text and incorporating all of the author's final revisions. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. First published: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, London 1818. The text of this edition follows: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, London 1831. Neuausgabe, LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag, G ttingen 2025.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3753801259
• ISBN13: 9783753801254
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Liwi Literatur- Und Wissenschaftsverlag
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

cheap printing - unknown author - fake ISBN

“Cursed, cursed creator!” - the creature echoes Victor grew up reading the works of Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Albertus Magnus, the alchemists of the time. Toss in a little natural philosophy (sciences) and you have the making of a monster. Or at least a being that, after being spurned for looking ugly, becomes ugly. So, for revenge, the creature decides that unless Victor makes another (female this time) creature, Victor will also suffer the loss of friends and relatives. What is Victor to do? Bow to the wishes and needs of his creation? Or challenge it to “the death”? What would you do? Although the concept of the monster is good, and the conflicts of the story are well thought out, Shelly suffers from the writing style of the time. Many people do not finish the book as the language is stilted and verbose, for example, when was the last time you said, "Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy of death." Much of the book seems like filler for a travel log. More time is spent describing the surroundings of Europe than the reason for traveling or just traveling. Many writers use traveling to reflect time passing or the character growing in stature or knowledge. In this story, they just travel a lot. This book is worth plodding through for moviegoers. The record needs to be set straight. The first shock is that the creator is named Victor Frankenstein; the creature is referred to as a "monster", not Frankenstein. It is Victor who is backward, which enables him to do the impossible by not knowing any better. The monster is well-read in "Sorrows of a Young Werther," "Paradise Lost," and Plutarch's "Lives." The debate (mixed with a few murders) rages on as to whether the monster was doing evil because of his nature or because he was spurned.