<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Gothic novel, Horror fiction, Soft science fiction </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Published </Th> <Td> 1818 (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 280 </Td> </Tr> <P> Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (or simply, Frankenstein for short), is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment . Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20 . Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823 . </P>

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