The Man who Wrote Frankenstein
Title | The Man who Wrote Frankenstein PDF eBook |
Author | John Lauritsen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Desire in literature |
ISBN | 9780943742151 |
In Search of Mary Shelley
Title | In Search of Mary Shelley PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Sampson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2018-06-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1681778211 |
We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life.In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
Title | Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost-story competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Over the next nine months - a period which saw their return to England in autumn 1816 and subsequent marriage - she (with Percy) drafted the entire novel in a form materially different from the two standard editions of 1818 and 1831, which were based on a later fair copy." "Until now, no one has been able to read what Mary Shelley herself initially wrote in this original draft of the novel. Going back to the unique draft manuscript of the text held in the Bodleian Library, Charles E. Robinson has teased out Percy Shelley's amendments, isolating them from the story in Mary Shelley's hand. Both texts - with and without Percy's interventions - are presented in this edition, allowing us for the first time to read the story in Mary's original hand and also to see how Percy edited his wife's prose."--BOOK JACKET.
Mary's Monster
Title | Mary's Monster PDF eBook |
Author | Lita Judge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2018-01-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1626725004 |
A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
The New Southern Gentleman
Title | The New Southern Gentleman PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Booth |
Publisher | Watchmaker Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780972178600 |
"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Hideous Love
Title | Hideous Love PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Hemphill |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 006220923X |
From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner Your Own, Sylvia and the acclaimed novel Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, most famous for the classic Frankenstein. An all-consuming love affair with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a family torn apart by scandal, a young author on the brink of greatness: Hideous Love is the story of the mastermind behind one of the most iconic figures in all of literature, a monster constructed out of dead bodies and brought to life by the tragic Dr. Frankenstein. This luminous verse novel reveals how Mary Shelley became one of the most celebrated authors in history.
Frankenstein
Title | Frankenstein PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Mary Shelley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 103 |
Release | 2021-07-21 |
Genre | |
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A masterpiece. A must-read.