SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM • The most famous horror story in world literature—the original tale
of a mad scientist and his monster—is 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.
