Frankenstein — Book Club Kit

The printable companion for book clubs reading Frankenstein — The Original 1818 Text: the original novel, invented as a ghost-story game in the Year Without a Summer.

Inside the kit (25 pages, US Letter, print as many copies as your group needs):

• A three-meeting reading schedule — the creation; the Creature’s own story; the wedding night and the ice

• Who’s Who — every major character, with the "Frankenstein is the monster" error addressed head-on

• A chapter map of Walton’s four letters and all twenty-three chapters

• The story behind this edition — the summer of 1816, the Villa Diodati contest, and how the 1818 original differs from the famous 1831 revision

• A short life of Mary Shelley

• A plain-spoken note on the period text

• The five explainers, condensed: galvanism · the letter-frame · Prometheus · the Arctic · "modern" in 1818

• 35 original discussion questions — one for every letter and chapter, plus a whole-book set, spoiler-fenced for each meeting

• "Spot the Revision" — an 1818 vs 1831 compare-it-yourself activity

• Ruled notes pages

The companion ebook, Frankenstein — The Original 1818 Text, is also available in this store.

Companion Classics, edited by Horace Harriott Jr. The novel’s text is public domain worldwide; all companion material is original to this edition. No film imagery or film likeness is used anywhere — the Creature here is Shelley’s.