Description:
This Warbler Classics edition of Frankenstein reproduces Shelley's original 1818 text and includes an afterword by Ulrich Baer, Shelley's introduction to the 1831 edition, and a detailed biographical timeline.
Brief description: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and the wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was eighteen years old when she began Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and with its publication in 1818 created science fiction as a genre. She went on to write six more novels, many short stories, and numerous articles, but Frankenstein, her masterstroke, remains her best-known work.