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Novels by Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818) recommended Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823) The Last Man (1826) The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1834) Lodore (1835) Falkner (1837) Mathilda (1959) Short Story Collections Mary Shelly: Collected Tales and Stories (1976) (recommended) The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction (1996) (recommended) Poetry by Mary Shelley: The Choice: A Poem on Shelley's Death (1876) Other Books by Mary Shelley: History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland (1917) with Percy Bysshe Shelley Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, 1843 (1844) Shelley and Mary: A Collection of Letters and Documents of a Biographical Character (1882) Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mostly Unpublished (1918) My Best Mary: The Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1953) The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1980) The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-44 (1987) Books edited by Mary Shelley: Posthumous Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824) The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839) Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840) |
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Introduction by Michael Bishop
Cover design by Michael Dashow
Mary Shelley's considerable reputation rests squarely on the shoulders of her one great novel - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 and revised under her own byline in 1831. Her powerful tale of blasphemous creation is perhaps more familiar to modern readers through its many film adaptations as it is from the book itself. From Boris Karloff's electrifying performance as Frankenstein to Kenneth Branaugh's latest directorial rendering, the story has received numerous interpretations which have renewed interest in the book time and time again.
Here is one of the productions of the modern school in its highest style of caricature and exaggeration. It is formed on the Godwinian manner, and has all the faults, but many likewise of the beauties of that model. In dark and gloomy views of nature and of man, bordering too closely on impiety -in the most outrageous improbability - in sacrificing every thing to effect - it even goes beyond its great prototype; but in return, it possesses a similar power of fascination, something of the same mastery in harsh and savage delineations of passion, relieved in like manner by the gentler features of domestic and simple feelings. There never was a wilder story imagined, yet, like most of the fictions of this age, it has an air of reality attached to it, by being connected with the favourite projects and passions of the times. -The Edinburgh Magazine, 1818 (for Frankenstein) |
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