Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1) The Last Man
Author
Publisher
Henry Colburn
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity. It also includes discussion of the British state as a republic, for which Shelley sat in meetings of the House of Commons to gain insight...
2) The Last Man
Author
Publisher
Henry Colburn
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity. It also includes discussion of the British state as a republic, for which Shelley sat in meetings of the House of Commons to gain insight...
3) Frankenstein
Author
Language
English
Description
The premier monster story of English literature-a tale of science pursued to horrifying extremes An origin story nearly as famous as the book itself: One dreary summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, amid discussions of galvanism and the occult and fireside readings from a collection of German ghost stories, Lord Byron proposed a game. Each of his guests-eighteen-year-old Mary Godwin and her future husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, among them-would...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
7) Mathilda
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mary Shelley's shocking, tragic, and some say autobiographical tale of incestuous love. Confined to her deathbed, Mathilda narrates the story of her life. It is a tale of sweeping emotion, shameful secrets, and wretched love. Her mother having died in childbirth, Mathilda is raised by her aunt until the age of sixteen, at which point she happily returns home to live with her father. But he turns deeply melancholic when a young suitor begins to visit...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Obsessed with creating life in a laboratory, a medical student haunts graveyards and dissecting rooms in search of the materials for his experiments. But when he achieves success, he rejects his ghastly creation. The creature--longing for love but shunned by all--turns evil and exacts revenge. Two centuries after its initial publication, Frankenstein endures as a synonym for "monster." The first modern horror novel as well as the first science-fiction...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Mary Shelley's tragic story of a scientist who created a monster is perhaps even more compelling and meaningful today than when it was written nearly two centuries ago. From the bits and pieces of dead bodies, and the power of electricity, the brilliant Victor Frankenstein fashions a new form of life-only to discover, too late, the irreparable damage he has caused.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who only wants to be loved.
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The iconic Gothic horror classics that gave birth to the monstrous myths that still inhabit our nightmares. Tragic heroines, windswept moors, dark and stormy nights, castle prisons, and forbidden desires realized at the greatest costthese are the elements of Gothic horror, given its finest expression in these five enduring novels. Frankenstein : Obsessed with the secret of creation, Swiss scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein cobbles together a body he...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A brain surgeon who inherits a family castle in Transylvania soon becomes obsessed with making his own monster after learning the family secrets. Assisted by the hunchback Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who wants to be loved.