The New Annotated Frankenstein (2017)
A big illustrated hardcover with Leslie S. Klinger’s notes beside the text.
Read the novel with someone at your elbow who has checked the places, the science and every change Mary Shelley made later.
You have read it before and want to read it again slowly, with notes on every page and pictures throughout.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the full novel. The publisher’s description says it starts from the 1818 text and traces her revisions in the 1823 and 1831 editions.
Changes: the reading. Klinger’s running notes and more than two hundred illustrations sit beside the text, with an introduction by Guillermo del Toro and an afterword by Anne K. Mellor.
Whose story is it?
the novel’s, and its annotator’s.
How much time does it ask?
A large Liveright hardcover of more than 400 pages.
Liveright hardcover, 8 August 2017; introduction by Guillermo del Toro, afterword by Anne K. Mellor.
Where to find it
Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Hardcover — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition