Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics)
The 1818 text, with the changes of 1831 listed at the back.
You can read the first version and still see what she changed: the 1818 novel, then an appendix of the 1831 revisions and her 1831 introduction.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the 1818 text, with Nick Groom’s introduction, notes and a chronology of Mary Shelley’s life.
Changes: nothing in the novel. Appendices print her 1831 introduction, the substantive changes of the 1831 edition, and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s review of the book.
Whose story is it?
Victor’s and the creature’s, and in the appendix, the author’s second thoughts.
How much time does it ask?
304 pages in paperback, third edition of the Oxford text.
Oxford World’s Classics, third edition, edited by Nick Groom, 2020, 304 pages. Appendix B: “The Third Edition (1831): Substantive Changes”.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition · Frankenstein: the 1831 text (Penguin Classics, ed. Maurice Hindle)