Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
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The real-life gruesome experiments that inspired Frankenstein
On January 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, ...
