Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Published in 1818, "Frankenstein" has spellbound readers for generations and has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in every medium. This freshly annotated, illustrated edition illuminates the novel and its electrifying afterlife.

"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...