Frankenstein

Produktbeschreibung

The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction


* Note on the Text


* Select Bibliography


* A Chronology of Mary Shelley


* Frankenstein


* Appendix A. Author's Introduction to the Standard Novels Edition (1831)


* Appendix B. The Third Edition (1831): Substantive Changes


* Appendix C. On Frankenstein by Percy Bysshe Shelley


* Explanatory Notes 

Kritik

probably the most brilliantly comprehensive introduction to Frankenstein that I have ever read. Even if you've read the book ... ou have to buy this finely produced OUP annotated edition to enjoy Nick Grooms distillation of Frankenstein's ideas and challenges: especially so as this is the first raw 1818 edition." Magonia Review 

Autoreninfo

Nick Groom is Professor in English at the University of Exeter. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and among his many books are The Forger's Shadow (Picador 2002), The Union Jack (Atlantic 2006, rev. edn 2017), The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2012), The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year (Atlantic 2014), and editions of a variety of eighteenth-century texts, from crime writing toShakespeare. He has edited Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (2014), Matthew Lewis's The Monk (2016), and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (2017) for Oxford World's Classics.