The Gothic novel Frankenstein<span>, or The Modern Prometheus is the result of </span>Mary Shelley's<span> travels to Geneva, Switzerland, with her future husband Percy Bryce Shelley, Dr. John Polidori and Lord Byron, themselves </span>famous<span> authors, and an entertaining contest between those friends about who could write the </span>best<span> horror story. </span>The structure of Frankenstein<span> is very largely determined by the way in which the narrative is organised: this is fully discussed in the section </span>Narrative<span>. Readers are likely to be struck by the way in which each narrative is framed by another, so that different parts of the story are recounted by different narrators.</span>
