Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus The 1818 Text

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, edited by James Rieger

University of Chicago Press, 1982
Paper: 978-0-226-75227-3 | Electronic: 978-0-226-62398-6
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226623986.001.0001

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ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYREVIEWSTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

"James Rieger's Frankenstein is relatively special among editions: it is the definitive scholarly text, and it is also the most readable copy for the classroom and the general reader. . . .The Rieger Frankenstein is very simply the best edition of this tremendously important and popular novel."—William Veeder, University of Chicago

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

James Rieger (1937-1985) was professor of English at the University of Rochester.

REVIEWS

"James Rieger's Frankenstein is relatively special among editions: it is the definitive scholarly text, and it is also the most readable copy for the classroom and the general reader. . . .The Rieger Frankenstein is very simply the best edition of this tremendously important and popular novel."

— William Veeder, University of Chicago

Illustrations from the Thomas Copy (1823)

Acknowledgments

Map. Lac Leman and the Region of Mont Blanc

Preface

Introduction

Selected Bibliography

Note on the Text

Volume One

Dedication

Preface - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Text

Volume Two

Volume Three

A. Mary Shelley's Introduction to the Third Edition (1831)

B. Collation of the Texts of 1818 and 1831

C. The Ghost-Story Contest