Author Mary Shelley

Format Paperback | 352 pages

Dimensions 127 x 196 x 18mm | 216g

Publication date 08 Mar 2018

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Language English

ISBN-10 0143131842

ISBN-13 9780143131847

《弗兰肯斯坦》（全名是《弗兰肯斯坦——现代普罗米修斯的故事》，其它译名有《科学怪人》等）,是英国作家玛丽·雪莱撰写的小说，最初出版于1818年，较为普及的版本是1831年印行的第三版，属于受到浪漫主义影响的哥特小说。后世有部份学者认为这篇小说可视为恐怖小说或科幻小说的起源。此书版本为1818年初版。

For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley’s original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon.

2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s seminal novel.For the first time, Penguin Classics will publish the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically-charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice.

This edition also emphasizesShelley’s relationship with her mother—trailblazing feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned A Vindication of the Rights of Woman—and demonstrates her commitment to carrying forward her mother’s ideals, placing her in the context of a feminist legacy rather than the sole female in the company of male poets, including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.

This edition includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by National Book Critics Circle award-winner and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon, and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson. 

玛丽·雪莱（Mary Shelley，1797年—1851年），英国著名小说家、英国著名浪漫主义诗人珀西·比希·雪莱的第二任妻子，因其1818年创作里文学史上第一部科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》（或译《科学怪人》），而被誉为科幻小说之母。

Frankenstein | The 1818 and 1831 Editions

弗兰肯斯坦 | 1818年版与1831年版

There are two major editions of Frankenstein. The 1818 edition is the original text published by Mary Shelley. The 1831 version includes Shelley's account of how the book came to be written but also has several textual changes. 

The 1831 edition has more comments critical of Victor's decisions and actions, as Shelley attempted to respond to the harsher conservative critics who had objected to her novel on moral grounds.

Many readers have come to know the novel by reading modern editions based on the 1831 version. Scholars argue that the original from 1818 more closely reflects Mary's original vision.