id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2499 Frankenstein - Wikipedia .html text/html 13277 1544 75 Shelley completed her writing in April/May 1817, and Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published on 1 January 1818[59] by the small London publishing house Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones.[60][61] It was issued anonymously, with a preface written for Mary by Percy Bysshe Shelley and with a dedication to philosopher William Godwin, her father. B. Whittaker) following the success of the stage play Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein by Richard Brinsley Peake.[62] This edition credited Mary Shelley as the book's author on its title page. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2499.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2499.txt