“Because I’m teaching an intro-level course in comparative literature, this edition was extremely helpful in showing the variety of critical approaches that they can take toward a single text. The article on radical science also helped me compare Frankenstein to Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things. I highly recommend this edition of Frankenstein and will use it in the future.” —Joshua Beall, Rutgers University
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9780393644029
Number of pages: 584
Dimensions: 213 x 130 x 30 mm
Weight: 473 g
Language: English
Edition: Third Edition
"A wonderful critical edition. I’m impressed with the quality of the essays. I will use this book in my Brit Lit II survey course." - Mary Thompson, University of Sussex
"This is a magnificent edition of Frankenstein! The articles selected are really relevant... The notes are also significant and informative, and the materials are equally interesting. Very good indeed!" - Dr. Antonio Gonzales, Filologia Moderna, University of Castilla–La Mancha, Spain
The Three Theban Plays
Collected Poems
The Odyssey
The Count of Monte Cristo
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
The Picture of Dorian Gray
On Writing
Metamorphoses
Shakespeare
The Birth of Tragedy
The Yellow Wallpaper And Selected Writings
The Histories
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This is a book well-deserved of its reputation, a chilling intruiging novel, documenting the life and loses of Dr Frankenstein and his bizzare creating. The complexity of mystic of it is matched only by the quality of... More
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