Frankenstein (Annotated): With a Historical Introduction

Unique to this title are:

A historical introduction
An overview of Frankenstein
A study of the themes present in Frankenstein
A list of famous quotes from Frankenstein

You may, of course, skip all of it and go straight to the main title if you do not want any spoilers and come back later to the beginning.

Mary Shelley was an English novelist who was best known as the author of the famous Gothic novel, Frankenstein. She was born in 1797, and her parents were the political philosopher, William Godwin, and the philosopher and feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft.

The story of Frankenstein begins with the explorer, Robert Walton, looking for a new passage from Russia to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean. One day, they spot an emaciated man - Victor Frankenstein - floating on an ice sheet. In a series of letters to his sister in England, Walton retells Frankenstein's tragic story.

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