Frankenstein: Introduction by Wendy Lesser

No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations and outright plagiarisms which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), Mary Shelley produced English Romanticism’s finest prose fiction.

Author: Mary Shelley
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
Published: 03/10/1992
Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.24w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780679409991
Language: English