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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text
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"James Rieger's Frankenstein is relatively special among editions: it is the definitive scholarly text, and it is also the most readable copy for the classroom and the general reader. . . .The Rieger Frankenstein is very simply the best edition of this tremendously important and popular novel."—William Veeder, University of Chicago
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Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the author of travel books, short stories, dramas, essays, and several novels, of which Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, remains the best known. After his death at sea, she also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was born and died in London.
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