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It is no slight merit in our eyes, that the tale, though wild in incident, is written in plain and forcible English, without exhibiting that mixture of hyperbolical Germanisms with which tales of wonder are usually told, as if it were necessary that the language should be as extravagant as the fiction.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Walter Scott Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 1818
The textual history of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is typically complex but in detail unusual. Shelley made many changes in Mary Shelley’s original manuscript and the proofs, changes that seem by no means always to be improvements.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at London Review of Books Frank Kermode London Review of Books 1996

This is a very bold fiction; and, did not the author, in a short Preface, make a kind of apology, we should almost pronounce it to be impious. We hope, however, the writer had the moral in view which we are desirous of drawing from it, that the presumptive works of man must be frightful, vile, and horrible; ending only in discomfort and misery to himself.

Tweet this quote Read the full piece at Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine 1818