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Frankenstein : York Notes Advanced by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Education | Series: York Notes Advanced
The novel Frankenstein is written in epistolary form, documenting a fictional correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton is a failed writer and captain who sets out to explore the North Pole and expand his scientific knowledge in hopes of achieving fame. ...Show more
Frankenstein - norton critical edition by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Dictionaries | Series: Norton Critical Editions
This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes material that conveys the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein. The text of the 1818 first edition is accompanied by a new preface, explanatory annotations and three supporting sections. Among the new inclusions are studies on the nove ...Show more
Gothic Tales by Mary Shelley by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Signature Select Classics Ser.
One of three Signature Select Classics chapbooks steeped in the thrills and chills of the gothic tradition, publishing simultaneously with chapbooks of similarly weird works by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.This stunning chapbook--perfect for fans of the mysterious and macabre--comprises Mary Shel ...Show more
Lodore by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
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 wil ...Show more
Mary and Maria, Matilda by Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: Classics
Includes stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In "Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary", the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man aft ...Show more
Mathilda and Other Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | 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
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | 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
Vintage Monsters Frankenstein/Sexing the Cherry by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics
"Vintage Monsters" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and Jeanette Winterson's "Sexing the Cherry."