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The Original Frankenstein
Mary Shelley (With Percy Shelley)
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Description for The Original Frankenstein
Hardcover. For nearly two hundred years, Mary Shelley's original text has lain dormant in the pages of her draft manuscript. This exciting new edition makes it possible to hear Mary's genuine voice for the very first time and shows the fascinating process whereby wife and husband collaborated on the first and most important work of science fiction. Editor(s): Robinson, Charles E. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 142 x 37. Weight in Grams: 528.
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition at Lord Byron’s villa by Lake Geneva. Over the next nine months -- a period which saw their return to England in autumn 1816 and subsequent marriage -- she (with Percy) drafted the entire novel in a form materially different from the two standard editions of 1818 and 1831 which were based on a later fair copy.
Until now, no one has been ... Read more
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition at Lord Byron’s villa by Lake Geneva. Over the next nine months -- a period which saw their return to England in autumn 1816 and subsequent marriage -- she (with Percy) drafted the entire novel in a form materially different from the two standard editions of 1818 and 1831 which were based on a later fair copy.
Until now, no one has been ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851243969
SKU
V9781851243969
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Ref
99-21
About Mary Shelley (With Percy Shelley)
Charles E. Robinson is a Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He has published and lectured extensively on the English Romantic writers, especially Byron and the Shelleys.
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