Mary Shelley: 327 books

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more...

Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck includes a table of contents. 

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and...

Europa, siglo XVIII. Durante el apogeo de la proliferación científica, el capitán de un barco que se encuentra navegando por las aguas del Polo Norte rescata al físico Victor Frankenstein. Al borde de la muerte, el doctor Frankenstein confiesa que se encuentra en plena persecución de lo que ha...

Aquel «verano húmedo y desapacible» de 1816 «me entretuve pensando una historia que consiguiera que el lector tuviera pavor a mirar a su alrededor, que le helara la sangre y que acelerara los latidos de su corazón», Mary Shelley en la introducción a la edición de 1831 sobre cómo se forjó Frankenstein.

Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of The Mortal Immortal includes a table of contents. 

Nella fredda e piovosa estate del 1816, a soli diciannove anni e in attesa di un secondo figlio, Mary Shelley scrive la terrificante storia di un mostro, il primo “uomo artificiale” della storia letteraria. Ispirato al mito antichissimo dell’uomo creatore della vita, il racconto sostituisce...

El Frankenstein como nunca lo habías leído: la ciencia que nos enseña una de las obras más estimulantes para el pensamiento. El Frankenstein de Mary Shelley ha pervivido en la imaginación popular durante doscientos años. Iniciado como un relato de fantasmas por una autora intelectualmente...

Jugar a ser Dios es cosa fácil, pero tiene, para todos los involucrados, creadores y criaturas por igual, un alto, altísimo precio que entre todos pagamos tarde o temprano. Este libro nos lo hace ver y comprender magistralmente. Una criatura que ha sido engendrada con restos de cadáveres descubre...

Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of Falkner includes a table of contents. 

The Mortal Immortal is a short story from 1833 written by Mary Shelley. It tells the story of a man named Winzy who becomes immortal which, at first glance appears to work in his favour promising him eternal tranquility. However, it soon becomes apparent that he is cursed to live forever in a torturous existence.

After a long series of civil dissension--after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands--after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August, 1415, whose result was to entwine,...

Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and ambitious young student, discovers the secret of creating life from the remains of the dead. But elation at his triumph is replaced by horror when he sees his monstrous creation. Abandoned by the one who made him, Frankenstein's Creature is left to a world that...

Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of The Invisible Girl includes a table of contents.