Frankenstein

Mary Shelley (b. 1797) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Anne DeLong is Associate Professor of English at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, and has a PhD from Lehigh University. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the Gothic and feminist literary theory. She is co-editor of The Journal of Dracula Studies. Tom Butler-Bowdon is series editor of the Capstone Classics series and has written introductions to Plato's Republic, Epictetus's Discourses, Machiavelli's The Prince, and Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Philosophy Classics, 50 Politics Classics, and 50 Psychology Classics.

• Introduction by Dr Anne Delong IXFrankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus xxviiIntroduction by Mary Shelley, 1831 edition xxixPreface by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818 xxxixLetters I–IV xliiiChapter I 1Chapter II 9Chapter III 19Chapter IV 29Chapter V 39Chapter VI 49Chapter VII 59Chapter VIII 73Chapter IX 85Chapter X 95Chapter XI 105Chapter XII 117Chapter XIII 127Chapter xiv 135Chapter xv 143Chapter xvi 155Chapter xvii 167Chapter xviii 175Chapter xix 187Chapter xx 197Chapter xxi 209Chapter xxii 223Chapter xxiii 237Chapter xxiv 247