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"This edition of Frankenstein is based on the publication in 1831 by Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley. 'Transformation' was first published in The Keepsake (1831). 'The Mortal Immortal' [was] also published in The Keepsake (1833). The original Greek text of Prometheus Bound is sometimes attributed to Aeschylus, from the late 500s BCE. This edition was translated by E.H. Plumptre, published by D.C. Heath & Co (1901)."--Title page verso.
About the author
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was born in London, to her father the writer William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary's early life was unconventional and by the age of 16 she eloped with the then-married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Amongst their friends were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron, the latter of whom offered the challenge to Mary to write a ghost story which later became Frankenstein.Dr Sarah Faulkner (Introduction) is a lecturer in English at the University of Washington in Seattle. She researches how nineteenth-century print culture and authorship practices shaped women’s novels and public personas. She has organized multiple public humanities events celebrating Romantic women writers, including Jane Austen and Mary Shelley – in 2018 she coordinated Frankenreads at UW, an interdisciplinary event celebrating the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein.
Summary
Gorgeous Collector's Edition. Victor Frankenstein is a man of science obsessed with creation. However, on achieving a miracle, he finds himself horrified by the creature of his own making. With a new introduction, two short stories, Aeschylus's Prometheus, a biography and Glossary of Gothic, Victorian & Literary terms.
