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An edition of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

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A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

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Dover Publications
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English
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92

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2005, ICON Classics
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Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo
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The annotated Frankenstein
1977, C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown Publishers, Clarkson N. Potter, C.N. Potter, Distributed by Crown Publishers
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Edition Notes

"This Dover edition ... is a new abridgment of a standard edition. The illustrations have been prepared specially for the present edition"--Bib. note.

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Mineola, N.Y
Series
Dover children's thrift classics

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Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.S54145 Fu 1997, PZ7.S54145

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Pagination
iii, 92 p. :
Number of pages
92

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OL665964M
ISBN 10
0486299309
LCCN
97011617
OCLC/WorldCat
36662986
Library Thing
8294
Goodreads
960448

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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.

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