num_pages: 261
description: Mary Shelley was only 19 when she composed this chilling fable of a scientist and his misshapen creation. The novel was a bestseller upon its publication in 1818, and it is now revised to collate the texts of 1818 and 1813 in a new, definitive edition.
language: English
title: Frankenstein
titlecomplete: Frankenstein
characters: Alphonse Frankenstein, De Lacey, Safie, Robert Walton, Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, Elizabeth Lavenza, William Frankenstein, Ernest Frankenstein, The Monster (Frankenstein), Henry Clerval, Agatha, Felix, Justine Moritz
genres: Literature, Science Fiction, Classics, School, Novels, Gothic, Fiction, Horror, Read For School, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1519375
places: Arctic Circle, Germany, Switzerland, Ingolstadt, Geneva
publisher: Penguin Classics