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D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf's edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel—for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text the original 1818 version, and detail in an appendix all of Shelley's later revisions. They also include a range of contemporary documents that shed light on the historical context from which this unique masterpiece emerged. New to this edition is a discussion of Percy Shelley's role in contributing to the first draft of the novel. Recent scholarship has provoked considerable interest in the degree to which Percy Shelley contributed to Mary Shelley's original text, and this edition's updated introduction discusses this scholarship. A new appendix also includes Lord Byron's "A Fragment" and John William Polidori's The Vampyre, works that are engaging in their own right and that also add further insights into the literary context of Frankenstein. Preface Introduction Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Volume I Volume II Volume III Appendix A: The Education of Mary Shelley: Godwin and Wollstonecraft 1. Godwin 2. Wollstonecraft Appendix B: The Education of Victor Frankenstein: Darwin and Davy 1. Darwin 2. Davy Appendix C: The Education of the Monster: Volney, Goethe, Plutarch, Milton, and Wollstonecraft 1. Volney 2. Goethe 3. Plutarch 4. Milton 5. Wollstonecraft Appendix D: Reviews of Frankenstein 1. Walter Scott, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1818) 2. The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany (1818) 3. John Wilson Croker, Quarterly Review (1817-18) 4. P.B. Shelley, Athenaeum (10 November 1832) Appendix E: Richard Brinsley Peake, Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) Appendix F: Lord Byron, “A Fragment” (1819) Appendix G: John William Polidori, The Vampyre: A Tale (1819) Appendix H: Substantive Variants Appendix I: Introduction to Shelley’s 1831 Edition Works Cited/Recommended Reading