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The Mary Shelley Reader contains the original, 1818 text of Frankenstein; a novella called Mathilda, written in 1819 but not published until 1959; seven 'Tales and Stories' (1824-34); six extracts from Essays and Reviews (1823-30); Mary Shelley's Prefaces to The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839) and to her own Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844); and a selection of her letters written between 1814 and 1841. All this material, except the essays and reviews, is now available in modern editions,(1) but for the non-specialist reader this collection is nevertheless a most useful one. The editorial material is brisk, usable, and authoritative. There is an informative chronology and a brief but comprehensive …