In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen
years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her
lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition
at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Over the next nine months --
a period which saw their return to England in autumn 1816 and
subsequent marriage -- she (with Percy) drafted the entire novel in
a form materially different from the two standard editions of 1818
and 1831 which were based on a later fair copy. Until now, no one
has been able to read what Mary Shelley herself initially wrote in
this original draft of the novel. Going back to the unique draft
manuscript of the text held in the Bodleian Library, Charles E.
Robinson has teased out Percy Shelley's amendments, isolating them
from the story in Mary Shelley's hand. Both texts - with and
without Percy's interventions - are presented in this edition,
allowing us for the first time to read the story in Mary's original
hand and also to see how Percy edited his wife's prose. The results
are fascinating. We read a more rapidly paced novel that is
arranged in different chapters. Above all, we hear Mary's genuine
voice which sounds to us more modern, more immediately colloquial
than her husband's learned, more polished style. To this day,
Frankenstein remains the most popular work of science fiction. This
edition promises to redefine the ways we read the story and
perceive the act of its creation.
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