Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most influential and controversial novels of the nineteenth century; it is also one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted. It has been vivisected critically by latter-day Victor Frankensteins who have transformed the meanings emergent from the novel into monsters of post-modern misconception. Meanwhile Franken-feminists have turned the novel into a monster of misanthropy. Seldom has a work of fiction suffered so scandalously from the slings and arrows of outrageous criticism. This critical edition, containing tradition-oriented essays by literary scholars, refutes the errors and serves as an antidote to the poison that has contaminated the critical understanding of this classic gothic novel.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a novel written in epistolary form, documenting a fictional correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his siste, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton is failed writer and captain who sets out to explore the North Ple and expand his scientific kowledge in hopes of achieving fame. Durng the voyage, the cre spots a dog saled driven by a gigantic fiture. 

Joseph Pearce