Preface (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus)
| First published | March 1818 |
|---|---|
| Type | Essay |
Do not confuse this with the 1831 Introduction by Mary Shelley, first published in that year's revised edition of Frankenstein.
This preface is "signed" as: "Marlow, September 1817." This is sometimes incorrectly viewed as if it had been written by "Marlow" (i.e. as a pseudonym). In fact, this refers to the town of Marlow, in the Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England. After their marriage, in March 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley moved to Marlow, where they lived until March 1818. The preface is sometimes attributed to Mary Shelley, but more commonly attributed to Percy, and she wrote in the 1831 introduction, "As far as I can recollect, it was entirely written by him."
This preface is "signed" as: "Marlow, September 1817." This is sometimes incorrectly viewed as if it had been written by "Marlow" (i.e. as a pseudonym). In fact, this refers to the town of Marlow, in the Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England. After their marriage, in March 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley moved to Marlow, where they lived until March 1818. The preface is sometimes attributed to Mary Shelley, but more commonly attributed to Percy, and she wrote in the 1831 introduction, "As far as I can recollect, it was entirely written by him."
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| March 1818 |
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones | Novel | |
| 1931 |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus | Grosset & Dunlap | Novel | xiii |
| 1934 |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus | The Limited Editions Club | Novel | xv |
| December 1965 |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus | Signet / New American Library of Canada | Novel | xiii |
| 1967 |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus | Collier Books | Novel | 5 |
| April 1967 |
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Frankenstein | Scholastic Book Services | Novel | 3 |
| 1970 |
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Frankenstein oder Der neue Prometheus | Hanser | Novel | |
| April 1971 |
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Frankenstein | Bantam Books | Novel | xvii |
| June 1972 |
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Frankenstein oder Der neue Prometheus | dtv | Novel | 5 |
| 1973 |
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Dracula / Frankenstein | International Collectors Library | Omnibus | 429 |
| January 1973 |
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Frankenstein | J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton | Novel | 1 |
| 1980 |
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Frankenstein | Watermill Press | Novel | v |
| May 1980 |
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Frankenstein oder Der neue Prometheus | dtv | Novel | 5 |
| October 1981 |
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Frankenstein | Bantam Books | Novel | xxvii |
| March 1982 |
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Frankenstein | Mondadori | Novel | 33 |
| 1992 |
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Frankenstein | Penguin Books | Novel | 11 |
| October 1993 |
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I grandi romanzi gotici | Newton Compton | Omnibus | 599 |
| February 1994 |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus | Penguin Books | Novel | 11 |
| June 1994 |
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Frankenstein: ovvero Il Prometeo moderno | Fanucci Editore | Novel | 7 |
| August 1994 |
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Frankenstein: ovvero Il Prometeo moderno | Bompiani | Novel | 13 |
| November 1994 |
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Frankenstein | Tor | Novel | xix |
| April 1995 |
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Frankenstein: ovvero Il Prometeo moderno | Edizioni Frassinelli | Novel | 9 |
| May 1996 |
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Frankenstein | W. W. Norton & Company | Novel | 5 |
| August 1998 |
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Frankenstein | Fabbri Editori | Novel | 7 |
| 1999 |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus | Wordsworth Editions | Novel | 9 |
| November 2001 |
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Frankenstein ili moderni Prometej | Šareni dućan | Novel | 5 |
| June 2002 |
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Frankenstein: ovvero Il Prometeo moderno | Corriere della Sera | Novel | 15 |
| August 2002 |
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Frankenstein | Fabbri Editori | Novel | 5 |
| October 2003 |
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Frankenstein | Bantam Books | Novel | xxix |
| 2006 |
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Frankenstein | Area | Novel | 5 |
| March 2006 |
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Frankenstein | VUM | Novel | 5 |
| June 2011 |
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I grandi romanzi gotici | Newton Compton | Omnibus | |12 |
| September 2011 |
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Frankenstein: or The New Prometheus | Bandanna Books | Novel | |
| December 2011 |
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Frankenstein | Tor | Novel | |
| 2012 |
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Frankenstein | W. W. Norton & Company | Novel | 5 |
| 2012 |
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Frankenstein | Tor | Novel | xix |
| 2012 |
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Frankenstein | W. W. Norton & Company | Novel | 5 |
| 2012 |
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus | Sterling Publishing | Novel | xxix |
| November 2012 | Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | Project Gutenberg | Novel | |1 | |
| October 2013 |
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Frankenstein | Penguin Books (US) | Novel | 11 |
| June 2015 |
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Frankenstein | Oxford University Press | Novel | 7 |
| August 2017 |
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The New Annotated Frankenstein | Liveright | Novel | 2 |
| October 2017 |
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Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus | Manesse | Novel | 7 |
| January 2018 |
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Frankenstein | Rockport Publishers | Novel | |
| July 2018 |
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Frankenstein | Vintage (UK) | Novel | |
| December 2018 |
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Horror Stories | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | |14 |
| December 2018 |
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Horror Stories | Flame Tree Press | Anthology | |14 |
| January 2019 |
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Frankenstein | Collins | Novel | xxvi |
| October 2019 |
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Frankenstein, o, il moderno Prometeo | Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli | Novel | |2 |
| November 2021 |
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Frankenstein | Chartwell Books | Novel | |
| October 2022 |
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Frankenstein, o, il moderno Prometeo | Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli | Novel | |1 |
| October 2022 |
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Frankenstein, o, il moderno Prometeo | Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli | Novel | |1 |
| 2023 |
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Frankenstein: Ou o Prometeu Moderno: Edição crítica | Editora Clepsidra | Novel | |
| March 2023 |
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Frankenstein oder Der neue Prometheus | Anaconda | Novel | [7] |
| September 2025 |
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus | Centipede Press | Novel | 25 |