Libros de Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

• 209 páginas
• At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. The resulting book,  Frankenstein;...

Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus

• A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok..

A Dark And Stormy Night

• 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...

Frankenstein - Third Edition

• 375 páginas
• D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf’s edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel—for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their...

Penguin English Library Frankenstein

• 256 páginas
• A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the horror within us all. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, who plunders graveyards to create a new being from the bodies of...

The Original Frankenstein

• 448 páginas
• Working from the earliest surviving draft of Frankenstein , Charles E. Robinson presents two versions of the classic novel—as Mary Shelley originally wrote it and a subsequent version clearly indicating Percy Shelley’s...

Frankenstein

• 240 páginas
• 'The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open..'

The Last Man - In Two Volumes - Vol. I.

• Originally published in 1833, this is the first of two volumes of Mary Shelley’s science fiction novel set in 2100 concerning an apocalyptic future in which a catastrophic plague has destroyed almost all of mankind. Best known for the...

The Last Man

• 362 páginas
• Mary Shelley founded modern science fiction with her 1816 classic Frankenstein. A decade later, she inaugurated the subgenre of post-apocalyptic sf with the less-lauded and less-known The Last Man. Shelley used the found-manuscript trope for this book,...

Frankenstein Original Text

• 132 páginas

Frankenstein Or The Modern Prometheus

• 336 páginas
• The world’s most famous work of horror fiction: a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.  Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American...

Frankenstein

Four Gothic Novels

• 612 páginas
• Each of these four Gothic stories reveals a psychological tale of isolation and monomania. H. Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' is filled with terror and ghostly interventions. William Beckford's 'Vathek' alternates grotesque comedy...

Valperga

• 492 páginas
• Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley’s most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements,...

Frankenstein

• 176 páginas
• Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . The story of Victor Frankenstein's terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations...

Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

• 208 páginas
• Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would 'curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a...

Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus

• 234 páginas
• At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the...

Frankenstein; Dracula; Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

• 663 páginas
• "Within the pages of this volume you will come upon three of the darkest creations of English nineteenth-century literature; three of the darkest in all of English and American literature, many would say..and not without justification..These three...