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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A hardcover, nonreturnable signed edition with a short print run (300 numbered copies).
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Shelley
This selection of work contains the complete ‘Frankenstein’, the novella ‘Mathilda’, selected short stories, essays and reviews.
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Mary Shelley,Rona Munro
A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young…
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Mary Shelley in Europe studies the European background of Mary Shelley's works and their reception. This two-fold approach is inspired by Mary Shelley dans son oeuvre, Jean de Palacio's seminal…
M. Garrett
Mary Shelley: A Chronology covers the three main stages of her life: her childhood as daughter of two of the best known radical writers of their age - Mary Wollstonecraft…
Barbara Johnson
This collection presents the hitherto unpublished last work by deceased literary scholar Barbara Johnson, A Life with Mary Shelley, alongside Johnson’s earlier landmark essays on Shelley and incisive new commentary…
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Mary Shelley
Frankenstein, the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the prototypical mad scientist who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become popularly…
Nicholas Marsh
This study focuses on how Frankenstein works: how the story is told and why it is so rich and gripping. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual…
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Lucy Morrison,Staci L. Stone,Staci L. Stone
Frankenstein is one of the most popular classroom texts in high school and college, and Shelley’s other works are attracting renewed attention.
Goldy Moldavsky
A deliciously twisty YA thriller about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror –
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"A deliciously twisty YA thriller about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror"--
Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker
This aesthetically pleasing, horror-themed, giftable paperback boxed set contains three timeless genre-defining classics: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, and…
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The timeless gothic classics Frankenstein, Dracula, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories are now available together in this bone-chilling hardcover boxed set.
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Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic classic accompanied by the art of legendary illustrator Bernie Wrightson live on in this gorgeous illustrated adaptation of Frankenstein-featuring an introduction by Stephen King.
A Mary Shelley Chronology covers in detail the three main stages of her extraordinary life: her childhood as daughter of two of the best known radical writers of their age…
Offers a complex picture of Mary Shelley, emphasizing the full range and significance of her writings in terms of her own era and ours. The book aims to bring fresh…
Michael January, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The real love story of Frankenstein! In 1814, 16-year-old Mary Godwin fell in love with the 22-year-old married poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in spite of the condemnation of their…
Salima Alikhan
This historical fiction book recreates the fateful trip that lead to the creation of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. Mary and her husband Percy travel to Lord Byron’s Lake Geneva home…
Holly McVaigh
From its first appearance in England in 1764 to current day, Gothic literature has been grossly misunderstood. Fortunately, for those who find the genre irresistible, the classics remain deliberated and…
Danielle Byington
We Are Mary Shelley's Monster tunes in to history and the present through poetry from the author's perspective, as well as how and where those moments exist collectively for the…
Offers an in-depth examination of bioethics as presented in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, as well as contemporary perspectives on this issue.
In The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, leading scholars discuss her work in several fascinating contexts: literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and…
Jennifer L. Airey (Associate Professor of English, University of Tulsa)
Explores Mary Shelley as an important religious thinker of the Romantic period. Analyzes her creative engagement with contemporary religious controversies and uncovers a belief system that was both influenced by…
Marilyn Easton
A leveled Reader based on an episode from the PBS KIDS television series Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum starring Mary Shelley.
Daisy Hay
In this book, Daisy Hay explores the novel’s time and place, its people, the relics of its long afterlife and the notebooks in which it was created. This is a…
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John Williams
Much of Mary Shelley’s life reads like a compilation of some of the most sensationalist novels of her time. This book offers an assessment of her literary achievement, set against…
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This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley’s life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th…
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Follow Victor Frankenstein as he travels through the northern highlands of Scotland or when he confronts the monster in the barren landscapes of the high Alps. Mary Shelley's novel ranges…
This stunning chapbook–perfect for fans of the mysterious and macabre–comprises Mary Shelley’s classic tale of a botched experiment in immortality, The Mortal Immortal, and On Ghosts: An Essay, her appraisal…
Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein is the foundation of modern SF, fantasy and horror fiction, was born to the writer William Godwin and social campaigner Mary Wollstonecraft. This new, special collection…
Two centuries after its original publication the most complete Frankenstein ever compiled.
Linda Bailey
After learning about electricity that can make dead frogs twitch, she has a nightmare that triggers the birth of one of the greatest scary stories of all time: Frankenstein…
Emily W. Sunstein
Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves… and the accompanying…
By analysing a previously neglected body of reviews, essays, novellas, letters, biographies, sketches, and tales, and in locating Mary Shelley as a shrewd critic of the Romantic zeitgeist, the essays…
Mark Arnold, QC
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein The book that changed the world Monster: Publishing to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle…
Pamela Clemit,Betty T Bennett
These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume