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The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by... Read Full Overview

"Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge," writes best-selling author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein... Read Full Overview

This edition has generous sized font and quality paper that will last. Frankenstein is Mary Shelley's classic horror story.

An annotated and illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's classic work, celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018.

A young idealistic student neglects his family and friends for an obsessive quest to harness the power of life itself. Victor Frankenstein's desperate struggle to escape the unintended consequences of his success comes to take over his life. Mary Shelley's novel is more than... Read Full Overview

'Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful...'

Victor Frankenstein, a student of science with much promise in his studies, becomes consumed with the prospect of creating new life. Traversing graveyards and unearthing their lifeless inhabitants of graveyards,... Read Full Overview

Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure... Read Full Overview

This edition has generous sized font and quality paper that will last. An introduction and footnotes are added to help make the story relevant in the context of the 21st Century.Frankenstein is Mary Shelley's classic horror story. "One man's life or death were but a small price... Read Full Overview

In a series of letters, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister back in England the progress of his dangerous mission. Successful early on, the mission is soon interrupted by seas full of impassable ice. Trapped, Walton encounters... Read Full Overview

This edition includes student exercises at the end of every chapter with answers at the end of the book.

This fully annotated edition of "Frankenstein" invites readers to go behind the scenes and explore Mary Shelley's iconic masterpiece, including: The historical and cultural context of the Enlightenment and Romantic movements, as well as Shelley's tumultuous personal life Key... Read Full Overview

The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous creature he created has held readers spellbound ever since it was published two centuries ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination... Read Full Overview

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is the most celebrated horror story ever written and one of the best-selling books of all time. It's a novel composed by English author Mary Shelley about the youthful understudy of science Victor Frankenstein, who makes an abnormal yet... Read Full Overview