When scientist Victor Frankenstein dares to play god and create life, he unleashes a being both intelligent and tormented. As creator and creation spiral into tragedy, the story confronts the limits of ambition, morality, and humanity. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a groundbreaking work of Gothic and science fiction—exploring isolation, responsibility, and the haunting consequences of defying nature.
Date: 1818 (United Kingdom)
Length: ~352 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~7.500.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
"Upon the whole, the work impresses us with a high idea of the author's original genius and happy power of expression... a novel which excites new reflections and untried sources of emotion" — Sir Walter Scott, novelist and critic (1818 review)
"It is one of the richest novels ever written" — Sidney Perkowitz, physicist and science writer
"Frankenstein is simultaneously the first science-fiction novel, a Gothic horror, a tragic romance and a parable all sewn into one towering body" — BBC Culture
"Mary Shelley, in the midst of the idealists, gives the dark side to the ideal being, showing us Frankenstein’s monster" — Stephen King, horror novelist
"Frankenstein contains one of the most vivid versions of the Romantic mythology of the self" — Harold Bloom, preeminent literary critic
"Mary Shelley grounded her fiction of the scientist who creates a monster he cannot control upon an extensive understanding of the most recent scientific developments of her day... she used this knowledge both to analyse and to criticise the more dangerous implications of the scientific method and its practical results" — Marilyn Butler, literary critic and historian
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