Frankenstein
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Overview:
- Title: Frankenstein
- Author: Mary Shelley
- Year: 2012
- ISBN-10: 9780393927931
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Price: £9.99
- Pages: xviii+524
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Frankenstein
- Notes:
- This is an edition of the 1818 text.
- 2nd edition in Norton Critical editions; third printing
- The title page reads: A Norton Critical Edition / Mary Shelley / Frankenstein / The 1818 Text / Contexts / Criticism / Second Edition / Edited by J. Paul Hunter, University of Chicago, Emeritus
- Brackets around a title indicate that the editor assigned this designation to an untitled excerpt.
- The critical material includes a section headed "Contexts" which contains selections, not indexed here, from Mary Shelley's predecessors and contemporaries, illustrating literary influences on her. They are: The creation narrative from the King James Bible (p. 289); excerpts from Paradise Lost (p. 290); the poems "Mont Blanc" (p. 295) and "Mutability" (p. 300) by Percy Bysshe Shelley; [The Sea of Ice] (p. 299), a description of a glacier by the same; excerpts from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (p. 305) by Lord Byron; and the poem "The Old Familiar Faces" (p. 306) by Charles Lamb.
- Illustrations not indexed below are a map of Geneva and its environs (p. 2); the title page of the 1818 edition (p. 3); and the 1818 dedication page (p. 4).
- Cover painting is Das Eismeer (c. 1823-24) by Caspar David Friedrich.