The Original Frankenstein (2009)
Mary Shelley’s draft, printed twice: once as she wrote it, once with Percy Shelley’s changes marked.
Percy Shelley edited the manuscript. See the novel without him, and then see exactly what he added.
You have read the novel and want to see the draft underneath it, and exactly which words were Percy Shelley's.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the story, from the earliest surviving draft.
Changes: which hand you are reading. Charles E. Robinson prints Mary Shelley’s text alone, then a second version marking Percy Shelley’s amendments — some 5,000 of the novel’s 72,000 words, by the publisher’s count.
Whose story is it?
Mary Shelley’s, as an author.
How much time does it ask?
464 pages in paperback.
Vintage Classics paperback, 8 September 2009, 464 pages; edited by Charles E. Robinson.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
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Common questions
How much of Frankenstein did Percy Shelley write?
His publisher’s count, in The Original Frankenstein, is some 5,000 words out of 72,000. Charles E. Robinson’s edition prints the draft twice, once as Mary Shelley wrote it and once with Percy Shelley’s changes marked.
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition