Mary Shelley

The Last Man (1826) is a dystopian novel by Mary Shelley. Dedicated to the recently deceased Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, The Last Man was controversial upon publication and was immediately suppressed by British authorities. Resurrected by dedicated critics and readers, the novel is now recognized as a pioneering work of science fiction and as the first work of dystopian literature to be published in English. The ambitious and semi-autobiographical...

Mathilda (1959) is a posthumous novella by English writer and Romantic Mary Shelley. Written as a means of self-distraction following the deaths of her young children in Italy, Mathilda is a work haunted by tragic loss. Unpublished for over a century, its posthumous appearance helped cement Shelley's reputation as a leading Romantic, an artist unafraid of confronting such themes and taboos as incest and suicide in her work. Mathilda, named after...

Europa, siglo XVIII. Durante el apogeo de la proliferación científica, el capitán de un barco que se encuentra navegando por las aguas del Polo Norte rescata al físico Victor Frankenstein. Al borde de la muerte, el doctor Frankenstein confiesa que se encuentra en plena persecución de lo que ha sido su más macabro y monstruoso experimento y origen de todos sus males. Con sus propias manos ha dado vida a un ser de aspecto abominable, que se ha...

The Mortal Immortal - Mary Shelley - "The Mortal Immortal" is a short story from 1833 written by Mary Shelley. It tells the story of a man named Winzy, who drinks an elixir which makes him immortal. At first, immortality appears to promise him eternal tranquility. However, it soon becomes apparent that he is cursed to endure eternal psychological torture, as everything he loves dies around him.

Tales and Stories (1891) is a collection of short fiction by Mary Shelley. Despite her reputation as one of the foremost English novelists of the nineteenth century, Shelley also wrote numerous stories for magazines and other publications, earning a reputation as a gifted storyteller in all forms of fiction. In "The Sisters of Albano," a traveler resting on the banks of an Italian lake strikes up a conversation with a beautiful Countess. Inspired...

"The Mortal Immortal" (1833) is an example of Shelley's short fiction that returns to the theme of the outcast who animates her famous novel. Her handling of the theme in Frankenstein reshaped the course of the fantastic, leading the way toward science fiction, presenting an influential image of the modern, sympathetic monster and demonstrating the ability of the genre to frame profound philosophical speculations in its presentation of the impossible....

Two Plays by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. "If fate decrees, can we resist? farewell! Oh! Mother, dearer to your child than light." A short collection of two mythological dramatic works. A combination of Mary Shelley's drama and Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems. Midas and Prosepine are two plays that were written originally as children's literature.

Mit Frankenstein hat Mary Shelley 1818 eine mythische Gestalt erschaffen, die im Lauf des 20. Jahrhunderts durch teilweise sehr freie Verfilmungen eine ungeheure Popularität erlangt hat. Während der Name nun für alle möglichen Arten von Monstern steht, erzählt Shelley die phantastische Geschichte des Victor Frankenstein, der – an der Universität Ingolstadt – ein künstliches Wesen erschafft, das er nicht beherrschen kann. Das Monster sehnt...

Falkner - Mary Shelley - Falkner charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner from committing suicide; Falkner then adopts her and brings her up to be a model of virtue. However, she falls in love with Gerald Neville, whose mother Falkner had unintentionally driven to her death years before. When Falkner is finally acquitted of murdering Neville's mother, Elizabeth's...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley beckons readers into a realm where scientific curiosity meets the dark depths of the human soul. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant and ambitious young scientist, becomes consumed by an insatiable desire to unlock the secrets of life. In his daring experiment, he stitches together a creature from disparate body parts and animates it with a spark of life. However, as the newly-formed...