The Best of Mary Shelley (Annotated) Including: Frankenstein, The Last Man, and Mathilda

The Best of Mary Shelley (Annotated) Including: Frankenstein, The Last Man, and Mathilda

by Mary Shelley
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 15/11/2014

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Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).  She is also known for The Last Man and Mathilda, which are both included in this collection.  This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  It has also been annotated, with additional information like overviews, themes, characters, and plot summaries. 

ISBN:
1230000280377
1230000280377
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
15-11-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bronson Tweed Publishing
Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva.

Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley conceived Frankenstein in, according to her, "a waking dream."

This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.,

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