The most famous horror story in world literaturethe original tale of a mad scientist and his monsteris also a profoundly moving masterpiece.

Features a New Introduction by Jeanette Winterson.

When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in his laboratory, he sets in motion tragic forces beyond his control and faces losing everything he loves. No reader in the grip of Mary Shelley’s novel, 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 countless adaptations, imitations, and homages 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), the teenaged Shelley managed to produce English Romanticism’s finest prose fiction. This edition reproduces her original 1818 text.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2025
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Pages: 220
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0307743314
ISBN 13: 9780307743312