Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus - Hardcover

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author)

Mary Shelley's complete 1818 Frankenstein preserves the original three-volume design and Walton's letters.

This is a Large Print Edition: the complete work is presented in a 7-by-10-inch hardcover with 18-point body text.

For collection development: this is a large-print edition intended for low-vision and aging patrons, and for any reader who finds standard trade print tiring over a long sitting. It suits large-print and accessibility collections, adult and young-adult general collections where the text is a standard, and reading-room copies where a durable case binding matters. The complete work is presented in a durable case-laminate hardcover. The text is unabridged and reproduced from a public-domain source without modernisation.

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This Clearview Editions hardcover sets the complete 1818 text in 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next on 27-point leading, with 1.5 line spacing and a ragged-right measure on 7-by-10-inch pages. These choices give the reader generous type and line length for sustained reading. The 7-by-10-inch format provides room for the larger letters while leaving space at the binding and outer edge for comfortable handling. The case-laminate binding protects a complete, unabridged text that can be kept in a personal or public library and returned to over many readings. This edition retains the three-volume architecture of the original publication within a single large-print hardcover. The original preface, the sequence of Walton's letters, and the narrative parts remain in their historical order. Readers can follow the framed story from its opening correspondence through the account that follows without a modern abridgment or a replacement of the 1818 wording with the later revised text. The edition also keeps the original volume title pages as facsimiles, so the physical history of the source remains visible alongside the newly set text. Volume and chapter headings remain as navigational landmarks, making it easier to pause and resume this long work.

The body font, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, was developed by the Braille Institute of America specifically to maximize letter recognition for readers with low vision, macular degeneration, and visual processing differences. It distinguishes between commonly-confused letter pairs - lowercase l versus uppercase I, the digit 0 versus uppercase O, b versus d, p versus q - using distinctive shape features that preserve readability even under eye strain. Text is set ragged right without automatic word division, keeping word spacing regular and words intact at line endings. This follows UKAAF large-print guidance for left-aligned text and avoiding split words. Every page is protected against widowed and orphaned lines, and the source illustrations are reproduced in grayscale on white 50-pound text stock. The text of this edition is faithfully preserved from the original public-domain source with the full structural integrity of parts and chapters as the author intended, and every part and chapter is bookmarked in the PDF outline for readers using digital reading devices or reading software. Clearview Editions is an imprint of Nimble Books LLC, dedicated to bringing the canon of public-domain literature to low-vision readers and to anyone who has ever found standard trade-paperback print too small, too cramped, or too tiring for the kind of sustained reading a great book deserves. Clarity first.