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...

Un científico decide crear una criatura con vida propia a la que luego rechaza-Amazon A scientist creates a creature with a life of its own and then rejects it

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.

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 wilderness of Illinois and utterly dependent on her father; and finally, the independent and highly educated Fanny Derham, the daughter of Lodore's childhood...

In the flattest and least agreeable part of the county of Essex, about five miles from the sea, is situated a village or small town, which may be known in these pages by the name of Longfield. Longfield is distant eight miles from any market town, but the simple inhabitants, limiting their desires to their means of satisfying them, are scarcely aware of the kind of desert in which they are placed. Although only fifty miles from London, few among them...

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...

"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....

Embark on an epic journey with one of literature's most profound creations! Our Original Editions for 'Frankenstein' are meticulously structured to maintain the novel's original language as crafted by Mary Shelley, while incorporating passage markers that harmonize content across our editions. These markers act as a conduit, linking students with the Adaptive Versions, available in both print and digital formats, to unravel the depths of Shelley's...

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 present had literary aspirations Byron challenged the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire...

Para Mary Shelley, los monstruos no son aquellos cuentos de hadas desde el principio de los siglos esos que se esconden debajo de la cama o en un closet; no, para la autora los monstruos son aquellas personas con las que podemos llevar una relación cercana, alguien que ha sembrado odio y rencor en su ser, en los otros, y que actúa con violencia, con una predominante necesidad de lastimar: Con esta premisa, Mary Shelley nos presenta una recopilación...