Frankenstein

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Frankenstein

the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth-century responses, modern criticism

1st ed.
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This is the original edition which was published in 3 volumes. The cover photograph is of Volume 1.
Published anonymously. By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
First edition.
With half-titles.
Title page with quote from Milton's Paradise Lost: "Did I request thee, maker, from my clay / To mould me man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?"
Printer statement from title page verso of volume 1; place of printing follows printer.
Pagination: volume 1: xii, 181, [3] pages; volume 2: [4], 156 pages; volume 3: [4], 192, [4] pages.
Publisher's advertisements on 2 unnumbered pages at end of volume 1 and 2 unnumbered pages at the end of volume 3.

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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
339

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Cover of: FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (Uncensored 1818 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
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2015, Enhanced Media, [Lulu.com]
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Frankenstein: 1818 Text
1998, Oxford University Press
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Frankenstein: the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth-century responses, modern criticism
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1982, University of Chicago Press
in English - Phoenix ed.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336).

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Series
A Norton critical edition

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.7
Library of Congress
PR5397.F73 M36 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 339 p. :
Number of pages
339

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL801547M
ISBN 10
0393964582
LCCN
95037928
Library Thing
8563833
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18489

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