Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Lynd Ward, Mary Wollstonecraft Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. Raptis Rare Books Fine Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Lynd Ward, Mary Wollstonecraft Review: Mary Shelleys Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus The. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all Mary Shelley's revisions to her story, and also includes 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'. Edited with an Introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle.