Frankenstein - Softcover

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420951564 ISBN 13: 9781420951561

Publisher: Digireads.com, 2015

Synopsis

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who through a strangely unorthodox experiment creates a grotesque yet sentient being. Victor, repulsed by the thing that he has created, abandons the monster. The creature in turn saddened by this rejection, departs as well. What follows is a series of tragic events. There is no greater novel in the monster genre than “Frankenstein” and no more well known monster than the one that is at the center of this novel. However, the monster of “Frankenstein” is more than the common lumbering moronic giant that is most often represented. Frankenstein’s monster is in reality a thinking intelligent being who is tormented by a world in which he does not belong. In this depiction Shelley draws upon the universal human themes of creation, the nature of existence, and the need for acceptance. For it is without this acceptance that the true monster, the violent nature of humanity, emerges. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and includes introductions by Sir Walter Scott and Mary Shelley.

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Review:

"Charles Robinson, more fi nely tuned to the authorship of "Frankenstein "than any scholar living or dead, has produced two versions of Mary Shelley's prepublication manuscript: as she first wrote it, then as it was marked with Percy's additions and alterations. With as much certainty and in as much detail as superhumanly possible, Robinson reanimates the beginnings of this vibrant novel in an authoritative, smartly accomplished, reader- friendly edition that will delight its fans no less than it will stimulate its students. An original work of imagination itself, The
Original Frankenstein, by illuminating the genesis of this novel, is now an invaluable part of its intriguing editorial history." --Susan J. Wolfson, Professor of English, Princeton University and President, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
"Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein "was famously inspired by telling ghost stories with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron during a cold, wet summer in the Swiss Alps. It continues to serve as shorthand for the dangers of reckless scientific advance, yet literary historians have never been able to agree on its origins. Could Mary Shelley, an unpublished 18-year-old, really have written the novel? Or was Frankenstein's monster her future husband's creation? . . . Charles E Robinson presents a convincing case for crediting the novel to 'Mary (with Percy) Shelley',
revealing the major changes PBS made to Mary's first draft. . . . The novel the Shelleys wrote together represents a remarkable act of literary homage and collaboration and Charles E Robinson's revealing new edition allows modern readers to be there at its creation. ." --"The Independent "(London)
"Th e novel's textual instability is explored in the impressive introduction to Charles Robinson's new edition. His honourable aim is not to give us another text of the novel we know--or think we know--but to strip away nearly two centuries of revision and appropriation in order to return to what he describes as the 'original' "Frankenstein." . . . The value of Charles Robinson's edition lies in the confi rmation of Mary Shelley's assertion . . . that 'Every thing must have a beginning--and that beginnings matter--and in its affirmation of community, cooperation and collaboration as fundamental to literary production." --"The Times Literary Supplement
""Thanks to the dogged textual work of Charles E. Robinson . . . readers will now be able to see for themselves what Mary wrote before she turned it over to Percy's editorial ministrations. . . . [This] version of the novel . . . probably comes as close as it's possible to get to the draft that Mary first handed Percy to read." --"The Chronicle of Higher Education"

Charles Robinson, more fi nely tuned to the authorship of Frankenstein than any scholar living or dead, has produced two versions of Mary Shelley s prepublication manuscript: as she first wrote it, then as it was marked with Percy s additions and alterations. With as much certainty and in as much detail as superhumanly possible, Robinson reanimates the beginnings of this vibrant novel in an authoritative, smartly accomplished, reader- friendly edition that will delight its fans no less than it will stimulate its students. An original work of imagination itself, The
Original Frankenstein, by illuminating the genesis of this novel, is now an invaluable part of its intriguing editorial history. Susan J. Wolfson, Professor of English, Princeton University and President, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
Mary Shelley s Frankenstein was famously inspired by telling ghost stories with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron during a cold, wet summer in the Swiss Alps. It continues to serve as shorthand for the dangers of reckless scientific advance, yet literary historians have never been able to agree on its origins. Could Mary Shelley, an unpublished 18-year-old, really have written the novel? Or was Frankenstein s monster her future husband s creation? . . . Charles E Robinson presents a convincing case for crediting the novel to Mary (with Percy) Shelley,
revealing the major changes PBS made to Mary s first draft. . . . The novel the Shelleys wrote together represents a remarkable act of literary homage and collaboration and Charles E Robinson s revealing new edition allows modern readers to be there at its creation. . The Independent (London)
Th e novel s textual instability is explored in the impressive introduction to Charles Robinson s new edition. His honourable aim is not to give us another text of the novel we know or think we know but to strip away nearly two centuries of revision and appropriation in order to return to what he describes as the original Frankenstein. . . . The value of Charles Robinson s edition lies in the confi rmation of Mary Shelley s assertion . . . that Every thing must have a beginning and that beginnings matter and in its affirmation of community, cooperation and collaboration as fundamental to literary production. The Times Literary Supplement
Thanks to the dogged textual work of Charles E. Robinson . . . readers will now be able to see for themselves what Mary wrote before she turned it over to Percy s editorial ministrations. . . . [This] version of the novel . . . probably comes as close as it s possible to get to the draft that Mary first handed Percy to read. The Chronicle of Higher Education"

From the Publisher:

Christopher Lee is one of the world's most iconic horror and fantasy actors - coming to prominence with the 1957 film `The Curse of Frankenstein' in which he played Frankenstein's monster. This began a long association with the film studio Hammer - with whom he made a further eleven films including the Transylvanian bloodsucker himself in the 1958 `Dracula', Kharis in `The Mummy' (1959), Sir Henry Baskerville in `The Hound of the Baskervilles' (1959) and Rasputin in `Rasputin, the Mad Monk' (1966). He also starred in two Denis Wheatley films `The Devil Rides Out (1967) and `To the Devil a Daughter' (1976).

Most recently, he has starred in `The Colour of Magic' (2008) `The Golden Compass' (2007), `Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' (2005) & `Star Wars: Attack of the Clones' (2002) and as Saruman in the recent `The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1420951564
• ISBN 13: 9781420951561
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 170