Frankenstein

by Shelley, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780743487580
• ISBN10: 0743487583
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Frankenstein: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic features: *More than 1,000 vocabulary words frequently tested on the SAT *Glossary of SAT words on the pages facing the text of the story

Author Biography

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was born to well-known parents: author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin.Unfortunately, Wollstonecraft died as the result of Mary's birth. Mary was raised by her father and a much resented stepmother. When Mary was sixteen, she met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a devotee of her father's teachings. In 1816, the two of them travelled to Geneva to stay with Lord Byron. One evening, while they shared ghost stories, Lord Byron proposed that they each write a ghost story of their own. Frankenstein was Shelley’s contribution.

Other works include Mathilda, The Last Man, and The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley died in 1851 at the age of fifty-three.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Chronology of Mary Shelley's Life and Work	p. xvii
Historical Context of Frankenstein	p. xix
Frankenstein
Notes	p. 287
Interpretive Notes	p. 297
Critical Excerpts	p. 309
Questions for Discussion	p. 321
Suggestions for the Interested Reader	p. 323
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