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At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history

At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next year and become the rage of London. In the generations since, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has been read by millions all over the world.

Mary Shelley's life, especially the first half of it, was as sad, melodramatic, improbable, and even tragic . The combination of a difficult delivery and inept medical care resulted in Mary Wollstonecraft's death less than two weeks after her daughter's birth

Mary Shelley's life, especially the first half of it, was as sad, melodramatic, improbable, and even tragic as any sentimental nineteenth century "sensation" novel. Given her background, Mary's intellectual prowess and literary talents are not surprising. The combination of a difficult delivery and inept medical care resulted in Mary Wollstonecraft's death less than two weeks after her daughter's birth. Thus, Mary was never to know her mother in person, although the memory and reputation of Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the dominating influences on her life. Her father was a distant man at best and he never completely forgave his daughter for causing his wife's death.

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen.

Mary Wollstonecraft died from complications of childbirth eleven days after her daughter was born

Mary Wollstonecraft died from complications of childbirth eleven days after her daughter was born. At age sixteen, Mary eloped to France with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, for which Mary’s father temporarily disowned her. In 1816, Shelley’s first wife, Harriet, whom he had abandoned for Mary, drowned herself in the Serpentine River. The world of mary shelley and frankenstein.

Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. Frankenstein (Classic Starts Series). This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) - generally recognized as the mother of the feminist movement, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and Mary Shelley (1797-1851), her. Mathilda. by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/, US: /-kræft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/, US: /-kræft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

This novel is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers ever since its first publication in 1818. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Hardback, 1994). Pre-owned: lowest price.

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