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200 Years of Frankenstein |
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley began writing Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus at age nineteen, and it was originally published in 1818, when she was 21 years old. She revised the story in 1931, changing her tone and judgement of the characters, after much tragedy in her life. The image and story of Frankenstein’s monster is now ubiquitous in our society, with the modern version being quite different from the original gothic tale of science fiction and horror that examines the role of science in the world and what it means to be human. |
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Presents the text of "Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus" from 1818, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.
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The New Annotated Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A comprehensively annotated, lavishly illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's classic accounts for variations between the 1818 and 1831 versions of the text and offers insights into its hidden mythological dimensions.
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Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel: Original Text Version
by Jason Cobley
An illustrated adaptation of the nineteenth-century classic provides a visual dimension to Shelley's themes of tolerance, power, and companionship, in a volume that is complemented by a character list and biographical author information.
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Frankenstein
The audiobook version of Frankenstein, read by voice actor George Guidall.
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In Search of Mary Shelley
by Fiona Sampson
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein, a major new biography of Mary Shelley, written by an award-winning poet, shares literary insight into Shelley's firsthand experiences throughout her infamously turbulent life.
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Frankenstein: A Cultural History
by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
A lighthearted history of the Frankenstein myth traces its origins in an unwed teen mother's 1816 nightmare, evaluates the shifts in period morality and science that shaped the story and its various interpretations, and considers the myriad invocations of the tale in a variety of formats.
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Spin-Offs of the Original
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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. Book one, Prodigal Son
by Dean R. Koontz
In a dramatic reworking of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel, Detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, are confronted by a vicious serial killer who stalks the city streets in search of victims that possess the humanity missing in himself, and uncover a link to an ages-old conspiracy in which their quarry in not only a homicidal maniac but also his deranged maker.
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Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Ahmed Saadawi
Hadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city.
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Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein
by Dave Zeltserman
Shattered and tortured after being wrongly accused of his beloved fiancée's murder, Friedrich of 19th-century Germany is subjected to a brutal lab experiment by Victor Frankenstein and the Marquis de Sade, who transform him into a violent and vengeful creature.
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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
by Kiersten White
The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.
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Victor Frankenstein
With the help of his protégé Igor, Victor Frankenstein researches immortality using cadavers, but he goes too far and creates a monster.
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A Fatal Likeness
by Lynn Shepherd
Commissioned to negotiate the release of papers linked to Frankenstein infamy, London detective Charles Maddox, whose uncle remains haunted by an unsolved mystery surrounding the Romantics literary movement, is roped into a gothic-tinged case that places him in the path of such luminaries as Lord Byron and Mary Shelley.
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