Works Included in this Edition

• Anderson, Alexander:
  • "Frankenstein"
  • "City and Village"
  • "The Engine"
• Anonymous:
  • Letters Written during the Late Voyage of Discovery in the Western Arctic Sea (1821).
• The Arabian Nights
  • "The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad"
• Bacon, Francis:
  • Essay 8. "Of Marriage and Single Life."
  • Essay 16. "Of Atheism."
• The Bible:
  • Genesis: 1-3
  • Psalm 137:1-8
• Brydges, Samuel Egerton:
  • The Lake of Geneva, Book II
• Buchan, Robert Williams:
  • "The Voyage of Magellan"
• Byron, George Gordon, Lord Byron:
  • Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818).
  • "A Fragment" [The Vampire] (1816).
  • Manfred: A Dramatic Poem (1817).
  • The Prisoner of Chillon (1816).
  • "Prometheus" (1816).
• Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de:
  • The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha, Book 2, Chapter 33, tr. Charles Jarvis (1821).
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor:
  • "Christabel" (pub. 1816).
  • "Dejection, an Ode" (pub. 1817).
  • "Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni" (pub. 1802).
  • "Kubla Khan" (pub. 1816).
  • "Pains of Sleep" (pub. 1816).
  • "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798; rev. 1817).
• Dante Alghieri:
  • Inferno, Canto 26 -- Italian text and translation by Henry Francis Carey (1805).
• Darwin, Erasmus:
  • The Temple of Nature (1803).
• Davy, Humphrey:
  • Outlines of a View of Galvanism (1801).
  • An Account of a Method of constructing simple and compound Galvanic Combinations (1802).
  • An Account of some Experiments on Galvanic Electricity made in the Theatre of the Royal Institution (1802?).
  • Account of some Experiments... relating to the Agencies of Galvanic Electricity, in producing Heat... (1802?).
  • Observations relating to the Progress of Galvanism (1802).
  • A Discourse introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802).
  • A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1802).
  • "On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity" (1806).
  • "Historical View of the Progress of Chemistry" from Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1812).
  • from "On the Powers and Properties of Matter," Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1812), Div. I, 1-4, 7.
• Dickens, Charles:
  • Great Expectations, chapter 40
• Disraeli, Issac:
  • "Alchymy" in Curiosities of Literature
• Ellison, Henry:
  • "The New Prometheus"
• from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 4th ed.:
  • Archangel
  • Geneva
  • Ingolstadt
  • Lausanne
  • Leghorn
  • Matlock
  • Orkneys
• Evans, Sebastian:
  • "Jones and Calypso"
• Eyriès, Jean-Baptiste-Benoît:
  • Tales of the Dead.
• Gaskell, Elizabeth:
  • Mary Barton, chapter XV (1848)
• Godwin, William:
  • An Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793).
  • from The Pantheon by Edward Baldwin (1806).
  • Preface to St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799)
• Goethe, Johann:
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).
• Goldsmith, Oliver:
  • The Vicar of Wakefield, from chapter 20 (1766).
• Gray, Thomas:
  • "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard" (1751).
  • "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" (1742; pub. 1747).
• Historical Documents:
  • Declaration of Independence.
  • U.S. Constitution.
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man.
• Hood, Thomas:
  • "Ode to the Great Unknown"
  • "Ode to Joseph Grimaldi, Senior"
• Hunt, James Henry Leigh:
  • The Story of Rimini, Canto II, 1-49.
• Irving, Washington:
  • The Life and Adventures of Christopher Columbus, Book V, Chapter 7 (1828).
• Johnson, Samuel:
  • From A Dictionary of the English Language (1755):
    • Apoplexy
    • Electricity
    • Enthusiasm
    • Magnetism
    • Monster
    • Polar
• La Fontaine, Jean de:
  • "The Ass and the Little Dog" from Fables (1668).
• Luttrell, Henry:
  • Crockford-House, Canto II
• Merivale, Herman Charles:
  • "The Storm"
• Milner, Henry M.:
  • Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster
• Milton, John:
  • Paradise Lost (1674).
• Montgomery, Robert:
  • The Age Reviewed, Part II
• Moore, Thomas:
  • "Enigma"
• William Nicholson:
  • "A Character of Mary Godwin" (1797)
  • from The British Encyclopedia; or, Dictionary of arts and sciences. Comprising an accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowledge (1809):
    • Alchemy.
    • Attraction.
    • Galvani.
    • Galvanism.
• Ovid:
  • Metamorphoses, I: 1-162.
• Peake, Richard Brinsley:
  • Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein (1823).
• Plutarch:
  • The Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans.
• Polidori, John William:
  • Diary (May-August 1816).
  • The Vampyre (1816).
• Pope, Alexander:
  • Moral Essays, Epistle II. "To a Lady: On the Characters of Women" (1735).
• Praed, Winthrop Mackworth:
  • "My Partner"
• Reviews of Frankenstein:
  • The Quarterly Review, January 1818, by John Wilson Croker
  • La Belle Assemblée, March 1818
  • Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1818, by Walter Scott
  • The British Critic, April 1818
  • The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany (1818)
  • The Gentleman's Magazine (April 1818)
  • The Athenaeum (1817; published November 1831) (by P. B. Shelley)
• Ross, Sir John:
  • Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a north-west passage and of a residence in the Arctic Regions, during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833 (1835):
    • Introduction.
    • Account of a mutiny.
    • Search for the north magnetic pole.
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques:
  • The Confessions (1788).
• Shakespeare, William:
  • Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2.
  • King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4.
  • Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7.
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, Scene 1.
  • The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2.
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft:
  • History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817).
  • from Rambles in Germany and Italy during the Years 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1844).
  • Annotations to The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839):
    • Alastor.
    • The Cenci.
    • Early Poems.
    • Poems of 1816.
    • Poems of 1817.
    • Queen Mab.
    • The Revolt of Islam.
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe:
  • "Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude" (1815).
  • The Cenci (1819).
  • "The Cloud" (1820).
  • "Dark spirit of the desart rude" (1811).
  • "Declaration of Rights" (1812).
  • from "A Defence of Poetry" (1821).
  • "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1816).
  • "Julian and Maddalo" (1819).
  • "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills" (1818).
  • "The Mask of Anarchy" (1819).
  • "Mont Blanc" (1816).
  • "Mutability" (1815).
  • "The Necessity of Atheism" (1811).
  • "Ode to the West Wind" (1819).
  • "Peter Bell the Third" (1819).
  • Prometheus Unbound (1819).
  • Queen Mab (1813).
  • The Revolt of Islam (1818).
  • "Rosalind and Helen" (1818).
  • "To Wordsworth" (1815).
  • "The Witch of Atlas" (1820).
  • Reviews:
    • Review of Frankenstein (1817; published November 1831).
• Smith, Adam:
  • The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759).
• Southey, Robert:
  • "Cornelius Agrippa: A Ballad" (1799).
  • from Thalaba (1801).
• Spenser, Edmund:
  • The Faerie Queene, I.5.
• Caius Suetonius Tranquillus:
  • from The Lives of the First Twelve Caesars.
• Tennyson, Alfred:
  • "Ulysses" (1833).
• Volney, Constantin François Casseboeuf, Comte de:
  • Les Ruines, ou Méditations sur les révolutions des empires (1791).
• Waite, Arthur Edward:
  • From Lives of Alchemical Philosophers (1888):
    • Albertus Magnus
    • Paracelsus
• Weale, John:
  • "The Royal Society," from The Pictorial Handbook of London (1854).
• Wollstonecraft, Mary:
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
  • Jemima's Narrative from Maria; or, the Wrongs of Woman, chapter 5 (pub. 1798).
• Wordsworth, William:
  • "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (1798).
• Xenophon:
  • Anabasis, 4.7.