Revised review - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1818

Well it had to happen sometime - I updated and expanded a review from one I did in 1998.  Check out Frankenstein and especially the edition I just read.  Amazing.  Lynd Ward's illustrations update the feeling of the novel, but keep the dread, the power and the drama.

Updated review - http://thebookmarque.blogspot.com/2006/08/frankenstein-mary-wollstonecraft.html
Link to edition from Fall River Press - http://www.amazon.com/Frankenstein-Lynd-Illustrated-Mary-Shelley/dp/0486470539/ref=pd_cp_b_0  (this isn't the version I have, but the only one I can find that is still available readily - do a search of Lynd Ward and Frankenstein and see what comes up, you might find one used or remaindered.)

Here are a couple of the illustrations -