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"Beware, for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Mary Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818, which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet, and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and commentary by Alison Larkin - 200th anniversary audio edition.
This chilling tale of a gruesome monster unleashed into the world by an unthinking scientist was first conceived in 1818 by nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley on a dark, rainy night on Lake Geneva. Lord Byron and Percy Shelley challenged their friends to see who could come up with the most horrifying...
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With detailed and evocative imagery, renowned artist David Plunkert takes readers on a dark journey into the greatest novel in the monster genre, Frankenstein. Celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of Mary Shelley's original 1818 version, Rockport Publisher's Classics Reimagined series presents this beautiful deluxe edition. The 256-page hardcover book features an 8 page vellum insert detailing the doctor's designs, and a stunning, full-bleed...
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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...
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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...
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Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a humanoid. It wanders alone into a hostile world, where fear of its size and ugliness subjects it to violence and ostracism, which in time it learns to blame upon its maker. As compensation for its suffering, it demands that he create a companion with whom to share its outcast life. Moved by the creature's account of its sufferings, the scientist...
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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,...
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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...
9) Frankenstein
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Frankenstein de Mary Shelley.
Mary Shelley, recién salida de la adolescencia fue la compañera del célebre poeta inglés Percy Shelley, con quien se fugó a Suiza, a pesar de él estar casado. Cuando su esposa se suicidó, los dos amantes contrajeron matrimonio. En una reunión en la que asistió Byron, este último propuso que cada uno escribiera una historia de horror y la joven sorprendió a todos cuando llego con la historia de "Frankenstein,...
10) 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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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it...
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Mary Shelley: literary queen of the Romantic era, deeply influenced by the Gothic tradition, and arguably the matriarch of the Science Fiction genre. Her works, though composed in the 1800s, contain elements straight out of today's headlines: the tension between what science can do vs. what it should do, cryonics, contagion, apocalypse and other dark futuristic themes. Shelley introduced the world to the first "mad scientist" character in her most...
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A young idealistic student neglects his family and friends for an obsessive quest to harness the power of life itself. Victor Frankenstein's desperate struggle to escape the unintended consequences of his success comes to take over his life. Mary Shelley's novel is more than the horror story of a brutish monster made famous in the movies. It is an insightful and disturbing gothic novel that encompasses philosophy, religion, science fiction, and psychological...
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In 1816, also known as "The Year Without a Summer," a group of pioneering writers gathered at Villa Diodati in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, and wrote some of the most iconic Gothic horror stories in English literature. The Tales of Villa Diodati is the result of a legendary ghost story contest between friends confined indoors by unseasonably dismal weather. "We will each write a story," proposed Lord Byron. The challenge was the genesis of this blood-chilling...
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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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"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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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...
18) Frankenstein
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There is no greater novel and no more well-known monster than Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Now you can enjoy the original 1818 version in this beautifully designed edition . The creature at the center of this tale is more than just a lumbering giant. He is in reality a thinking intelligent being who is tormented by a world in which he does not belong. Shelley draws upon the universal themes of creation and the nature of existence with the overall...
19) 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...
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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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