Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Annotated): The Study Guide Edition

By: Mary Shelley, Francis Gilbert

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“A great teacher,” Jeremy Paxman, BBC’s Newsnight. “Clearly Francis Gilbert is a gifted and charismatic teacher,” Philip Pullman, author of ‘Northern Lights’. “Gilbert writes so well that you half-suspect he could give up the day job,” The Independent. Are you a student struggling to understand Mary Shelley’s classic novel ‘Frankenstein’? Or are you an educator wanting ready-made exercises and guidance to help you teach this difficult text? Do your students need support to understand the language properly and work independently on the book? This edition of Shelley’s classic horror novel contains a comprehensive study guide to the work as well as extensive questions for students to work on in order to help their understanding. Aimed specifically at students and teachers reading the book as an exam text, there is a detailed introduction which outlines how to understand the difficult language, how to write top grade essays, and how to discuss the contexts of the novel. The complete text is punctuated by useful comments and engaging tasks on every chapter. If you buy the e-book, you will be able to access the numerous useful weblinks embedded throughout the text.