Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most famous Gothic novel
and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein's monster being
a symbol of science gone awry. Shelley's masterpiece has inspired
numerous films, plays and other books. This, the 1818 edition, published
anonymously, contains the author's original vision. Later revisions,
though edited by Mary Shelley, were made more conservative and palatable
to nineteenth century readers.