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Mathilda by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic | Series: Broadview Editions
Mary Shelley's Mathilda, the story of one woman's existential struggle after learning of her father's desire for her, has been identified as Shelley's most important work after Frankenstein. The two texts share many characteristics, besides authorship and contemporaneity: both concern parental abandonme ...Show more
Mathilda and Other Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Mathilda is Mary Shelley's haunting story of an incestuous and fatal love. The narrative traces the teenaged Mathilda's reunion with her unnamed father, and the development of their obsessive bond that culminates in suicide. Shelley's own father, William Godwin, was so disturbed after reading the manusc ...Show more
Matilda : Little Black Classic by Mary Shelley
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever ...Show more
Oxford Playscripts: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Philip Pullman
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Oxford Playscripts S.
"Oxford Classic Playscripts: Frankenstein" is the famous story of a young man who thinks he can change the world by making better human beings. Instead he creates a living monster with a mind of its own. It contains new, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teachi ...Show more
Proserpine and Midas by Mary Shelley; Percy Bysshe. Shelley; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Mint Editions--The Children's Library
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosop ...Show more
Reading & Training: Frankenstein + audio CD by Shelley, Mary
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Reading & Training Ser.
Steampunk: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Everyone is familiar with Mary Shelley's classic novel, but no one has read it like this! "Frankenstein" is the long celebrated gothic tale of a science experiment gone awry. But in this brand-new edition, Shelley's haunting horror story is transformed with the addition of steampunk-inspired art. With e ...Show more
The Annotated Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Fiction
First published in 1818, Frankenstein has spellbound, disturbed, and fascinated readers for generations. One of the most haunting and enduring works ever written in English, it has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in virtually every medium, making the Frankenstein myth familiar even to those who ...Show more
The Great Horror and Fantasy Collection by Wilkie Collins; Franz Kafka; H. P. Lovecraft; Bram Stoker; Edgar Allan Poe; Henry James; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics
This boxset contains 8 terrifying and entertaining horror and fantasy novels: The Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsMetamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Lovecraft Compendium by H. P. LovecraftDracula by Bram StokerClassic Tales of Horror by Edgar Allan PoeThe Turn of the Screw by Henry JamesFrankenstein by Ma ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to Eng ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Mary Shelley's third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley's treat ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary W. Shelley; John Havard (Introduction by); Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction
Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, whose gothic style and progressive ideas have had a permanent influence on literary history. Daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley quickl ...Show more