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Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a Gothic novel by the English author Mary Shelley, published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818. Its protagonist, the young scientist Victor Frankenstein, creates a living creature from body parts and is horrified by what he has made. Shelley, aged 18, conceived it by Lake Geneva in the cold summer of 1816, when Lord Byron proposed that he and his companions each write a ghost story. It spawned a genre of horror stories, films and plays and is generally considered one of the first science fiction novels.
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