Description: This edition returns the tale to its original form, uniting the 3 anonymously published volumes here in the Booksellers Preferred Edition. It tells the tale of god-like aspirations & too-human failings, of the ache of longing to belong & relentless isolation, of family, of the emerging ethics of science & the often cruel realities of nature.
Review Quotes:
"The writer of it is, we understand, a female; this is an aggravation of that which is the prevailing fault of the novel; but if our authoress can forget the gentleness of her sex, it is no reason why we should; and we shall therefore dismiss the novel without further comment" The British Critic, 1818
"... what Mary Shelley wrote was ... the quintessential teenage book. 'You don't belong. You were brought to this world by people that don't care for you, and you are thrown into a world of pain and suffering, and tears and hunger, and you learn to talk...' It's an amazing book, written by a teenage girl. It's mind-blowing." Guillermo del Toro, 2016