This "Norton Critical Edition" of "Frankenstein" contains the 1818 first edition text.

Only the obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The book also includes writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John William Polidori, enabling the reader to place the novel in its historical context.

Six 19th-century responses to the novel illustrate contemporary reactions, whilst 12 modern critical essays cover the different aspects (psychoanalytic, mythic, feminist) of the work.