Mary Shelley: 327 books

Mary Shelley lived a literary life. Her father encouraged her to learn to write through letter writing, and her favorite occupation as a child was to write stories. In adulthood she surrounded herself with literary geniuses, one of whom was her husband, the poet Percy Shelley. Her talent blossomed...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in...

DESCRIPTION With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork, and published on the 200th anniversary of infamous night the novel was spawned, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley’s paragon of horror and science fiction vividly back to life. A...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...

Romance de terror gótico com inspirações do movimento romântico, de autoria de Mary Shelley, escritora inglesa e esposa do poeta e ensaísta Percy Bysshe Shelley, relata a história de Victor Frankenstein, um estudante de ciências naturais que busca recriar um ser vivo, uma criatura, através...

È la notte del 16 giugno del 1816 a Villa Diodati, sul lago Lemano a Ginevra, quando Mary Shelley concepisce il racconto che segnerà una svolta radicale nella tradizione del romanzo gotico o del terrore. Le circostanze in cui tutto ciò accade sono a dir poco eccezionali. Il 10 aprile dell’anno...

Mary Shelley ( Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of...

Get ready for the new Showtime horror series ‘Penny Dreadful’ coming this May with Volume 4 of the Penny Dreadful Multipacks! Included in this bundle: ‘Frankenstein’ (1818 Version) by Mary Shelley ‘The String of Pearls’ (Sweeney Todd) by James Malcolm Rymer ‘The Lady or...

Mary Shelley (1797-1851), mulher do poeta inglês Percy B. Shelley, escreveu Frankenstein para participar de um concurso de histórias de terror realizado na intimidade do castelo de Lord Byron. Mesmo competindo com grandes gênios da literatura universal, acabou redigindo esta que é uma das mais...

Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and...

Poche creature di orrore hanno catturato l'immaginazione dei lettori e le hanno tenute per tanto tempo come il mostro angosciato di Frankenstein di Mary Shelley. La storia della terribile creazione di Victor Frankenstein e lo scempio che ha causato ha affascinato generazioni di lettori e ispirato...

En 1814, Mary Shelley, connue pour son célèbre Frankenstein, et son mari Percy Shelley entament avec leur ami poète Lord Byron, un voyage de deux ans qui passe par Genève et Chamonix. Leurs lettres, publiées ici, à la découverte de ces paysages sont enthousiastes.En 1814 Mary Shelley, surtout...

These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary,...

Este libro reúne por primera vez tres apasionadas novelas de "la extraordinaria pareja" formada por una madre y su hija: Mary Wollstonecraft y Mary Shelley, precedidas de una valiosa introducción de Janet Todd, especialista en la obra de Mary Wollstonecraft y Jane Austen. El núcleo de...