Frankenstein & The Last Man (Annotated)

Bringing together Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1826), this volume presents Mary Shelley's most searching meditations on creation, responsibility, solitude, and human extinction. Frankenstein fuses Gothic terror, Romantic introspection, and proto-scientific speculation into a morally complex tale of ambition and abandonment. The Last Man expands Shelley's vision to apocalyptic scale, imagi...