{"type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL25342A"}], "description": "Mary Shelley (then Godwin) and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With the weather against them, they decided to spend their time writing ghost stories for each other. *Frankenstein* is Mary Shelley\u2019s submission to their contest, later published anonymously in 1818.\r\nVictor Frankenstein, a strange but brilliant scientist, discovers a method of imparting life to inanimate matter. The Monster is thus born: a hideous, 8-foot-tall creature of muscle, speed, and intellect. Frankenstein\u2019s rejection of his appalling creation sends it into a spiral of despair, and Frankenstein\u2019s life is never the same.\r\nConsidered by many to be the first science fiction novel, *Frankenstein* is a powerful narrative that explores complex themes of belonging, morality, and the consequences of the power over life and death. This edition is based on Shelley\u2019s revised 1831 edition.", "identifiers": {"standard_ebooks": ["mary-shelley/frankenstein"], "amazon": ["B076HCHTV6"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "publish_date": "2015", "publishers": ["Standard Ebooks"], "source_records": ["standard_ebooks:mary-shelley/frankenstein"], "subjects": ["Science fiction", "Horror tales", "Gothic fiction (Literary genre)", "Scientists -- Fiction", "Monsters -- Fiction", "Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction", "Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character) -- Fiction"], "title": "Frankenstein", "full_title": "Frankenstein", "covers": [12621882], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL450063W"}], "key": "/books/OL37044608M", "subtitle": "Or, The Modern Prometheus", "physical_format": "ebook", "first_sentence": "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.", "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-02-08T23:55:16.874148"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-30T14:18:41.658061"}}