Mary Shelley
1) The Last Man
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The Last Man (1826) is a dystopian novel by Mary Shelley. Dedicated to the recently deceased Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, The Last Man was controversial upon publication and was immediately suppressed by British authorities. Resurrected by dedicated critics and readers, the novel is now recognized as a pioneering work of science fiction and as the first work of dystopian literature to be published in English.
The ambitious and semi-autobiographical...
2) Mathilda
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Mathilda (1959) is a posthumous novella by English writer and Romantic Mary Shelley. Written as a means of self-distraction following the deaths of her young children in Italy, Mathilda is a work haunted by tragic loss. Unpublished for over a century, its posthumous appearance helped cement Shelley's reputation as a leading Romantic, an artist unafraid of confronting such themes and taboos as incest and suicide in her work.
Mathilda, named after...
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing
...4) Frankenstein
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Eager science student Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. Although initially excited that his experiment is a success, Frankenstein becomes horrified at the grotesque being that stands before him and flees. Angered by the rejection, The Monster retaliates by taking the lives of those dearest to Frankenstein. The decision to play God torments both Frankenstein and The Monster he created until the end of their...
5) Frankenstein
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Embark on an epic journey with one of literature's most profound creations!
Our Original Editions for 'Frankenstein' are meticulously structured to maintain the novel's original language as crafted by Mary Shelley, while incorporating passage markers that harmonize content across our editions. These markers act as a conduit, linking students with the Adaptive Versions, available in both print and digital formats, to unravel the depths of Shelley's...
6) Frankenstein
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A young scientist has created a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a frightful monster! Now, Victor Frankenstein must stop his creation before the monster's loneliness turns to violence. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words and...
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The Mortal Immortal - Mary Shelley - "The Mortal Immortal" is a short story from 1833 written by Mary Shelley. It tells the story of a man named Winzy, who drinks an elixir which makes him immortal. At first, immortality appears to promise him eternal tranquility. However, it soon becomes apparent that he is cursed to endure eternal psychological torture, as everything he loves dies around him.
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Tales and Stories (1891) is a collection of short fiction by Mary Shelley. Despite her reputation as one of the foremost English novelists of the nineteenth century, Shelley also wrote numerous stories for magazines and other publications, earning a reputation as a gifted storyteller in all forms of fiction.
In "The Sisters of Albano," a traveler resting on the banks of an Italian lake strikes up a conversation with a beautiful Countess. Inspired...
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A mediados del siglo XVIII, un hombre juega con la idea de la creación de la vida. Es cuando crece y va a la universidad, que lleva a cabo un experimento que helaría la sangre a cualquiera: dar vida a restos de cuerpos que alguna vez respiraron. Asustado por el monstruo que acababa de parir, Frankenstein huye y lo deja solo. La historia se divide en los relatos del creador y su deseo por olvidar su terrible experimento; y la historia del monstruo,...
10) Lodore
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Also published as The Beautiful Widow, Mary Shelley's penultimate novel explores the web of relationships between three women, bound together by the exacting Lord Lodore: his estranged wife Cornelia, a woman ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society; his daughter Ethel, raised in the wilderness of Illinois and utterly dependent on her father; and finally, the independent and highly educated Fanny Derham, the daughter of Lodore's childhood...
12) Falkner
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Falkner - Mary Shelley - Falkner charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner from committing suicide; Falkner then adopts her and brings her up to be a model of virtue. However, she falls in love with Gerald Neville, whose mother Falkner had unintentionally driven to her death years before. When Falkner is finally acquitted of murdering Neville's mother, Elizabeth's...
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The tales and stories in this collection were casually written at different periods and under different influences. As a rule, it may be said that Mary Shelley is best when most ideal, and excels in proportion to the exaltation of the sentiment embodied in her tale. Virtue, patriotism, disinterested affection, are very real things to her; and her heroes and heroines, if generally above the ordinary plane of humanity, never transgress the limits of...
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"The Mortal Immortal" (1833) is an example of Shelley's short fiction that returns to the theme of the outcast who animates her famous novel. Her handling of the theme in Frankenstein reshaped the course of the fantastic, leading the way toward science fiction, presenting an influential image of the modern, sympathetic monster and demonstrating the ability of the genre to frame profound philosophical speculations in its presentation of the impossible....
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Two Plays by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. "If fate decrees, can we resist? farewell! Oh! Mother, dearer to your child than light." A short collection of two mythological dramatic works. A combination of Mary Shelley's drama and Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems. Midas and Prosepine are two plays that were written originally as children's literature.
16) Cuentos góticos
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Para Mary Shelley, los monstruos no son aquellos cuentos de hadas desde el principio de los siglos esos que se esconden debajo de la cama o en un closet; no, para la autora los monstruos son aquellas personas con las que podemos llevar una relación cercana, alguien que ha sembrado odio y rencor en su ser, en los otros, y que actúa con violencia, con una predominante necesidad de lastimar: Con esta premisa, Mary Shelley nos presenta una recopilación...
17) El último hombre
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"Reconocida como la mejor novela de Mary Shelly tras su popular ""Frankenstein""
El último hombre da título a la novela utópica publicada por Mary Shelley en 1826, en la que retrata una sociedad futura que ha sido arrasada por una terrible plaga. El narrador, Lionel Verney, único superviviente de la enfermedad, recuerda los años finales de la existencia de la raza humana, cuyo fin había sido profetizado en la Cueva de las Sibilas hacía miles...
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Two Horror classics perfect for a dark and stormy night. In Mary Shelley's tale of bio-engineering gone horribly wrong, Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. When Frankenstein abandons his experiment in horror, the Monster embarks on a quest for ultimate revenge. In Bram Stoker's timeless gothic vampire romance, young solicitor Jonathan Harker must shield his fiancée Mina from the predations of the insatiable...
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These three classic works by the nineteenth-century English novelist and pioneer of Gothic literature are emblematic of the Romantic era.
Frankenstein: The legend of Victor Frankenstein and the unholy monster he brings to life is a masterpiece of Romantic literature and one of the most famous horror stories ever written. Bound to each other by fate, the doctor and his creation engage in an obsessive, murderous pursuit of each other from Switzerland...
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It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenged the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire...