Counting down to 2024: The sixtieth anniversary of The Munsters, the fiftieth anniversary of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder's Young Frankenstein, the fortieth anniversary of Tim Burton's original Frankenweenie, the thirtieth anniversary of Kenneth Branagh’s film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Universal Studios’ television series Monster Force, the twentieth anniversary of Geof Darrow and Steve Skroce’s comic Doc Frankenstein and Stephen Sommers’s film Van Helsing, and the tenth anniversary of Stuart Beattie’s I, Frankenstein.

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Frankenstein Editions: 1831 Edition in Oxford World's Classics

Continuing to get information on all standard editions of Frankenstein into the blog. Here is the first of two from Oxford University Press.

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
By Mary Shelley
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by the late M. K. Joseph
Oxford World's Classics
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/frankenstein-9780199537167?cc=us&lang=en&#


Paperback ($7.95)
Published: 15 October 2008
264 Pages
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
ISBN: 9780199537167

Also Available As: Ebook


Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literature--the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.



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