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Frankenstein

৳290
Format Paperback
Year 2009
Language English
ISBN 978 984 20 0056-0
Edition 1st
Pages 208

Frankenstein is arguably considered the first fully developed science fiction. But the story has had an influence on literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18 and finished when she was 19. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture. people tend to refer to the creature as "Frankenstein", though it was the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, which is obvious from the novel's subtitle The Modern Prometheus.

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