Victor Frankenstein
1818 novel by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in 1823.
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| Published | 1 January 1818 (Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones)
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| Pages | 280
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| Dewey Decimal | 823.7
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| LC Class | PR5397 .F7
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Igor: It's alive.
Victor Von Frankenstein: Isn't that rather obvious?
Victor Von Frankenstein: Isn't that rather obvious?
- )The mis-pronunciation of Frankenstein's name is an allusion to a line from Young Frankenstein (1974).
- James McAvoy played the son of Alec Newman in Children of Dune (2003). Newman also played Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein (2004).
- Victor Frankenstein is revealed to have had a brother named Henry. In Frankenstein (1931), the main character as played by Colin Clive was named "Henry Frankenstein" instead of "Victor Frankenstein".
- Three cast members of Sherlock (2010) in this movie: Andrew Scott (Moriarty), Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes) and Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper). Director Paul McGuigan also directed 4 episodes of the series.
- The last major Frankenstein film was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), which featured Kenneth Branagh, John Cleese, Robert Hardy and Helena Bonham Carter, all of whom appeared with Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter films.
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