books by Mary Shelley

books by Mary Shelley

books:

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

W. W. Norton, 1995

Gothic at its best
Mary Shelley was the daughter of the famous feminist and author, Mary Wollstonecraft, who is best known for her work The Vindication of the Rights of Women. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a young university student, Victor Frankenstein, obsesses with wanting to know ...

Frankenstein; Dracula; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, ...

Signet Classics, 1978

TO DIE FOR!
Three classics books, three classic monsters, and three classic stories that have been told and retold time and time again, all here in one great book! I'm sure you Horror Film fans like me have seen the Boris Karloff Frankenstein, the Bela Lugosi Dracula, and the ...

Frankenstein: Literary Touchstone
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Prestwick House Inc., 2005

Originally written as a response to a challenge from Lord Byron, Frankenstein still haunts our minds with images of the dead brought back to hideous life. Mary Shelley's nineteenth-century masterpiece begins with a fateful rescue in the Arctic and slowly evolves into a gripping story of horror—a contest of wills between Victor Frankenstein ...

Frankenstein: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic

Mary Shelley

Kaplan Publishing, 2006

Read A Classic, and Prep for the SAT!
This is one of the best ways of learning SAT vocab, or simply vocab for your own personal gain. Read the classic work on the right, SAT words are in bold and defined on the left. The real kicker is that words are repeated throughout the book. After seeing words over ...

Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein

Horace Walpole, William Beckford, ...

Penguin Classics, 1968

Gothick Terror, Oriental Decadence, Romantic Vampyres...
This volume is an excellent introduction to four works of the Gothic mindset, which hit England at the end of the 1700s and lasted on into the early Romantic period, all the way up to the late decadence of the 1890s, winding up in Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE ...

Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)

Mary Shelley

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000

A book for all ages...
Frankenstein is a book for all ages. Frankenstein has shown versatility throughout its life. This book has been adapted by its readers to represent all eras. It offers the reader a look not only into the past but also to the near future. With such things as the ...

Frankenstein (Signet Classics)

Mary Shelley

Signet Classics, 2000

You've seen Karloff, now read the original
Once you read Shelley's classic you're going to scratch your head and wonder: Is this really the book that gave us the Karloff movie? Not to mention Herman Munster and Frankenberry. For over a century and half people have been cannibalizing this book for ideas, movies, ...

Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)

Mary Shelley

Pocket, 2004

frankenstein
came next day in perfect condition my sister needed it for school and she was very pleased thank you

Frankenstein (Longman Cultural Editions)

Mary Shelley, Susan J. Wolfson

Longman, 2006

Frankenstein plus writings contemporaneous of the novel
Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is a major novel in Western Civilization. I always think of it as representing the paradigm shift from religion to science, embodied in the contrast with the myth of Faust with the story of ...

Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)

Mary Shelley

Penguin Classics, 2003

4-1/2 stars for a classic the movies messed up
Did the people who made the Frankenstein movie even read this book? All of the things that I associated with Frankenstein are creations of the movie alone. No Igor, no lightning striking the body, no grave-robbing (not directly referred to anyway), no mountain ...

Spark Notes Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, SparkNotes Editors, ...

SparkNotes, 2002

Good analysis
I don't advocate reading SparkNotes (or CliffNotes) but if you are a high school/college student with a busy schedule and don't have time to read Shelley's novel, this does give a complete and accurate summary of the book's contents; it also explores the themes and ...

Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie Wrightson

Dark Horse, 2008

Few works by comic-book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983. Twenty-five years later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements ...

The Last Man (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2004

Death and disease level all men
This novel is a combination of a `roman à clefs' and science fiction, with gothic and autobiographic elements. In her vision of the end of the 21st century, Mary Shelley sees the Greek occupying Istanbul and England as a republic with three political parties ...

Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)

Mary Shelley

Penguin Classics, 2007

A praiseworthy addition to the Frankenstein legacy!
Daniel Clowes, the artistic genius who brought us Ghost World and Ice Haven, focuses his immense talents to reconfigure Shelley timeless literary masterpiece to fit the boundaries the four-color page. The result: one of the best comic book portrayal of the monster ...

Mary; Maria; Matilda (Penguin Classics)

Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley

Penguin Classics, 1993

A fierce feminist and a mortal passion
The two stories of Mary Wollstonecraft 'Mary' and 'Maria' (the latter unfortunately unfinished) tackle the same problem: the position of women in society. 'But a wife being as much a man's property as his horse, or his ass, she has nothing she can call her own.' The ...