Frankenstein
A young scientist creates life — and spends the rest of his own fleeing what he has made.
- Author
- Mary Shelley
- First published
- 1818
- Length
- About 78,000 words (roughly 280 print pages)
- Formats
- EPUB (DRM-free) · Online reader
- Language
- English (British spelling)
- Edition source
- Standard Ebooks (public-domain dedication, CC0)
About this book
Victor Frankenstein discovers how to animate dead matter and, in a fever of ambition, builds a living being. Horrified by his creation, he abandons it. The creature, intelligent, articulate and utterly alone, sets out to find the man who made him.
Written when Mary Shelley was still a teenager, the novel is part Gothic thriller and part philosophical argument about responsibility, loneliness and what we owe the things we make.
About this edition. This book is in the public domain, so the text may be available free elsewhere. Your purchase covers our formatted EPUB edition, full access in the online reader and lifetime re-downloads from your library. Read the free sample before you buy.
- The complete text — about 78,000 words (roughly 280 print pages)
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Credits & licence
Ebook edition: Standard Ebooks, released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Produced for Standard Ebooks by Alex Cabal, based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and digital scans from the Internet Archive. Cover: Standard Ebooks design adapted from “Portrait of Adam”, a painting completed in 1578 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (public domain). Includes the 1818 preface by Percy Bysshe Shelley. EPUB and web reader edition packaged by Paper Lane Books from the Standard Ebooks source files. Standard Ebooks is not affiliated with Paper Lane Books and does not endorse this shop.
