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  2. Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein is a frame story written in epistolary form. Set in the 18th century, it documents a fictional correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Robert Walton is a failed writer who sets out to explore the North Pole in hopes of expanding scientific knowledge.

  3. Mary Shelley bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Richard Rothwell, Mary Shelley, (1839-40) This is a bibliography of works by Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851), the British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy ...

  4. Mary Shelley - Wikipedia

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    — William Godwin to Mary Shelley After her husband's death, Mary Shelley lived for a year with Leigh Hunt and his family in Genoa, where she often saw Byron and transcribed his poems. She resolved to live by her pen and for her son, but her financial situation was precarious. On 23 July 1823, she left Genoa for England and stayed with her father and stepmother in the Strand until a small ...

  5. Frankenstein's monster - Wikipedia

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    Frankenstein's monster, also referred to as Frankenstein, [a] is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus as its main antagonist. Shelley's title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein , to the mythological character Prometheus , who fashioned humans out of clay ...

  6. Gothic aspects in Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Gothic aspects in Frankenstein. Frontispiece from the 1831 edition. When Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published in 1818, the novel immediately found itself labeled as Gothic and, with a few exceptions, promoted to the status of masterpiece. The Gothic wave began with Horace Walpole 's The Castle of Otranto (1764 ...

  7. Victor Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    Victor Frankenstein is a fictional character who first appeared as the titular main protagonist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.He is a Swiss scientist (born in Naples, Italy) who, after studying chemical processes and the decay of living things, gains an insight into the creation of life and gives life to his own creature (often referred to as ...

  8. The Mortal Immortal - Wikipedia

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    The Mortal Immortal. " The Mortal Immortal " is a short story from 1833 written by Mary Shelley. It tells the story of a man named Winzy, who drinks an elixir which makes him immortal. At first, immortality appears to promise him eternal tranquility. However, it soon becomes apparent that he is cursed to endure eternal psychological torture, as ...

  9. On Frankenstein - Wikipedia

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    On. Frankenstein. "On Frankenstein " in The Athenaeum, London, November 10, 1832. " On Frankenstein " is a review of Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus that was written by her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, in 1817 but not published until 1832.

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