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Introduction (Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus)

Mary Shelley

First published October 1831
Type Essay

Do not confuse this with the 1818 Preface to the first edition of Frankenstein, which is sometimes printed without credit and sometimes attributed to Mary Shelley, but was actually written by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1831 Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Colburn and Bentley Novel |0.1
1922 Cover Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne La Renaissance du Livre Novel xi
December 1965 Cover Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Signet / New American Library of Canada Novel vii
April 1971 Cover Frankenstein Bantam Books Novel xi
1973 Cover Dracula / Frankenstein International Collectors Library Omnibus 431
1973 Cover Frankenstein sau Prometeul modern Editura Albatros Novel
1980 Cover Frankenstein Watermill Press Novel viii
1981 Cover Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo Alianza Editorial Novel 9
October 1981 Cover Frankenstein Bantam Books Novel xxi
March 1982 Cover Frankenstein Mondadori Novel 27
1983 Cover Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo Forum (Spain) Novel 3|1
1987 Cover Frankenstein oder Der neue Prometheus Das Neue Berlin Novel 5
July 1990 The Mary Shelley Reader Oxford University Press Omnibus 167
July 1990 The Mary Shelley Reader Oxford University Press Omnibus 167
1992 Cover Frankenstein Penguin Books Novel 5
October 1993 Cover The Essential Frankenstein Plume Novel 296
October 1993 Cover I grandi romanzi gotici Newton Compton Omnibus 595
February 1994 Cover Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Penguin Books Novel 5
August 1994 Cover Frankenstein: ovvero Il Prometeo moderno Bompiani Novel 5
November 1994 Cover Frankenstein Tor Novel xii
December 1994 Cover Frankenstein ou le moderne Prométhée Presses Pocket Novel 17
April 1995 Cover Frankenstein: ovvero Il Prometeo moderno Edizioni Frassinelli Novel 309
April 1995 Cover Frankenstein: ovvero Il Prometeo moderno Edizioni Frassinelli Novel 1
May 1996 Cover Frankenstein W. W. Norton & Company Novel 169
1999 Cover Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Wordsworth Editions Novel 1
October 2003 Cover Frankenstein Bantam Books Novel xxiii
2004 Cover Frankenstein Barnes & Noble Books Novel xiii
March 2006 Cover Frankenstein VUM Novel 7
June 2011 Cover I grandi romanzi gotici Newton Compton Omnibus |11
December 2011 Cover Frankenstein Tor Novel
2012 Cover Frankenstein W. W. Norton & Company Novel 165
2012 Cover Frankenstein Tor Novel xii
2012 Cover Frankenstein W. W. Norton & Company Novel 165
2012 Cover Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus Sterling Publishing Novel xxiii
October 2013 Cover Frankenstein Penguin Books (US) Novel 3
February 2014 Cover Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin Nonfiction 18
June 2015 Cover Frankenstein Oxford University Press Novel 1
August 2017 Cover The New Annotated Frankenstein Liveright Novel 291
October 2017 Cover Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus Manesse Novel 403
September 2018 Cover Frankenstein Harper Perennial Novel |0
December 2018 Cover Horror Stories Flame Tree Publishing Anthology 12
December 2018 Cover Horror Stories Flame Tree Press Anthology |12
January 2019 Cover Frankenstein Collins Novel xix
September 2021 Cover Haven Speculative, September-October 2021 Haven Speculative MAGAZINE |11
2023 Cover Frankenstein: Ou o Prometeu Moderno: Edição crítica Editora Clepsidra Novel
March 2024 Cover Frankenstein Wandler Novel 33
July 2024 Cover The Theory of the Weird Tale Sarnath Press Nonfiction 102
July 2024 Cover The Theory of the Weird Tale Sarnath Press Nonfiction |102
September 2025 Cover Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Centipede Press Novel 19