FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
FRANKENSTEIN MARY SHELLEY
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (1818), is a combination of Gothic horror story and science fiction. The book tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who creates an artificial man from pieces of corpses and brings his creature to life.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1818 edition’s first chapter was expanded as well as split into two different chapters. The 1831 edition had changes made to the origin story of Elizabeth Lavenza. The 1831 edition introduces the concept of galvanism, a power thought to be able to reanimate bodies.
Detailed explanation-4: -A small London publishing house, Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, first printed Frankenstein: or, a Modern Prometheus in a limited series of just 500 copies on January 1, 1818.