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What is Frankenstein about?

Mary Shelley began Frankenstein at nineteen, during a wet summer in 1816 beside Lake Geneva, where she and friends challenged each other to write ghost stories. It was published anonymously in 1818.

Victor Frankenstein, a young student of natural science, builds a living creature from collected body parts and then abandons it in horror. The creature, left alone and rejected, tells its own side of the story, and the two become bound to each other through guilt and revenge. The full title is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

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Is Frankenstein free to download?

Yes. Frankenstein was first published in 1818, so it is in the US public domain. Mary Shelley died in 1851, so it is also free in the EU, where copyright ends 70 years after death. This edition comes from Standard Ebooks, which releases its texts under CC0.

What is Frankenstein about?

A young scientist creates a living being and then rejects it, with tragic results for both. The creature itself tells part of the story.

Is Frankenstein the novel or the 1931 film?

Frankenstein is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. The 1931 film is a separate adaptation, and in the book the creature has no name and is not called Frankenstein.