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frankenstein or the modern prometheus
p no one in the grip of mary shelleys frankenstein with its mythic minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads goethe and longs to be at peace with himself can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations imitations and outright plagiarisms which have followed in its ample wake . in her first novel written at the instigation of lord byron and published in 1818 mary shelley produced english romanticisms finest prose fiction . br book jacket status not jacketed
a young swiss scientists discovery of the cause of generation leads to the creation of a hideous monster