Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's gothic novel of the scientist and the creature he makes and abandons, told in letters from the Arctic.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Mary Shelley

type

Gothic / science fiction

era

Romantic era (1818)

language

English

setting

Geneva, the Alps, Orkney, the Arctic

parts

3 volumes

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Conceived in the 1816 'year without a summer' ghost-story contest at Lake Geneva.
• Frankenstein is the creator's name; the creature himself is unnamed.
• Its frame narrative nests the creature's story inside Victor's inside Walton's letters.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Frankenstein