Contents

About the Authors

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction by CHARLOTTE GORDON

Suggestions for Further Reading by CHARLOTTE GORDON

FRANKENSTEIN

THE 1818 TEXT

How to Read Frankenstein by Charles E. Robinson

Chronology by Charles E. Robinson

Suggested Further Reading by Charles E. Robinson

Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831), by Mary Shelley

The Creation of Eve—Genesis 2:18–25, King James Bible

“Prometheus” by Lord Byron

Mary Shelley’s Letter I, Hôtel de Sécheron, Geneva, May 17, 1816

Excerpts from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Shelley’s Diary Entry, March 19, 1815