Cover of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

4.0 · 228 ratings on Open Library

The first great science-fiction novel.

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Length
78,000 words
Reading time
About 5 hours
Format
EPUB, DRM-free

About the book

A young scientist builds a living being from the dead, then runs from what he has made. Written by Mary Shelley at nineteen, it is less a monster story than a question that never gets old: what do we owe the things we create?

“The work impresses us with a high idea of the author’s original genius and happy power of expression.”
Sir Walter Scott, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1818

This is the Standard Ebooks edition, carefully proofread and typeset, with a table of contents and linked footnotes.

What readers think

4.0 out of 5

228 ratings of Frankenstein from Open Library readers, as of 10th Nov.

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  • 2 stars7%
  • 1 star3%