Frankenstein

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This edition was first designed and marked up in XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS by Joseph Byrne at the University of Maryland

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This edition has been in gestation for some fifteen years, which in terms of electronic editions encompasses what in book production might be likened to several centuries. It began from a campus-wide project at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, where all incoming first-year students were asked to read Frankenstein over the summer and begin their college experience with a seminar on the novel taught by faculty members from a wide array of disciplines.

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All texts are transcribed from reliable standard editions. In the case of translated works, every effort has been made to select an edition known to, or contemporary with, Mary Shelley.

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The original design and formatting of this edition were overseen by Jack Lynch, with consultancy provided by Sam Choi.

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This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen years, provides the text of the 1818 edition with copious annotations that emphasize the novel's strong inter- and intra-textual connections.

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This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen years, provides the text of the 1831 edition with copious annotations that emphasize the novel's strong inter- and intra-textual connections.

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Mary Shelley's full biography, her entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, and a bibliography of her reading.

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Summaries of all three volumes of the 1818 text.

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An alphabetical list of all the characters featured in Frankenstein.

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Frankenstein became very popular, particularly after Richard Brinsley Peake's dramatic adaptation in 1823. Throughout the nineteenth century, references to the novel appear in a great many novels and poems, sometimes in serious allusions, sometimes in facetious references. The following list is far from exhaustive.

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As early as 1823, Frankenstein had been adapted for the stage: Richard Brinsley Peake's Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein appeared on the stage only five years after Mary Shelley's novel was published.

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The century-long success of the stage adaptations of Frankenstein made it a natural choice for filmmakers. The list of movies based, however indirectly, on Mary Shelley's novel stretches into the hundreds.

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There are countless editions of Mary Shelley's novel, many ephemeral and even undated, so any catalog is necessarily incomplete. Below are most of the major editions, reprints, and translations through 1996 that can be found in libraries. All texts after the first and second are based on the 1831 edition unless otherwise noted. Audio and video recordings are excluded, as are adaptations. For any single year, texts are arranged alphabetically by place of publication, with those in English preceding translations into foreign languages.