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snookums · 01-28-2008, 10:47 AM

This is more of a book request really. I'm looking for the original 1818 text of Frankenstein in e format. Even the gutenberg version is Shelley's revised text. She changed a few things in the second version to make the book more palatable. In the original, Frankenstein's bride really is his cousin. In the second version, Shelley changed it to explain that she was really an orphan who had come to live with them and cousin was their nickname for each other. There are other differences such as Frankenstein being more a man of vice in the first edition. I'd really like to have the original version in e format. Anyone know where I can find it?

01-28-2008, 10:47 AM	#1
snookums Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 100 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Kindle	The 1818 text of Frankenstein This is more of a book request really. I'm looking for the original 1818 text of Frankenstein in e format. Even the gutenberg version is Shelley's revised text. She changed a few things in the second version to make the book more palatable. In the original, Frankenstein's bride really is his cousin. In the second version, Shelley changed it to explain that she was really an orphan who had come to live with them and cousin was their nickname for each other. There are other differences such as Frankenstein being more a man of vice in the first edition. I'd really like to have the original version in e format. Anyone know where I can find it?