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Graphic Novel Classics: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Graphic Novels
One of the scariest and most gripping novels of all time is brought vividly to life in this graphic novel retelling created by renowned comic and graphic novel artist, Anthony Williams. Makes a great gift for comic or graphic-novel enthusiasts and provides an appealing introduction to the world of liter ...Show more
Gris Grimly's Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Children's Books
"Grimly enlivens the prose while retaining its power to both frighten and engage sympathy for the monster-creator Victor Frankenstein. This is a richly morose nightmare of a book, a primer for young readers on the pleasures and dangers of decadent languidness."--New York Times Book Review Gris Grimly's ...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 Shelley Horror Stories by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Romantic Fantasy Ser.
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 brings together extracts of her novels and short stories, with an emphasis on the supernatural.
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
Matilda : Little Black Classic by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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
Steampunk: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics
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 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: 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 Shelley
Category: Classics
One of the first dystopian novels ever written, The Last Man traces the impact of an unstoppable pandemic as it slowly overtakes the world.Beginning in the year 2073, the story follows Lionel Vesey — the titular last man — and his circle of friends as the disease creeps from continent to continent and e ...Show more