Remarkably a nineteen-year-old writing her first novel penned a tale that combines tragedy morality social commentary & a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge writes Leslie S Klinger Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is often reductively dismissed as a monster film or a cautionary tale about experimental science gone haywire Illuminating every hidden dimension of the "first truly modern myth" Klinger does for Shelley's story of early nineteenth-century horror what he did for Sherlock Holmes Dracula & HP Lovecraft bringing this gothic tale to nightmarish life by reproducing the original text with the most lavishly illustrated & comprehensively annotated edition to date