Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

Author: Shelley, Mary

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 8 March 2018 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 352 pages
130 x 196 x 21 | 230g

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monsterThis edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.