Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1) Mathilda
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[1819]
Language
English
Description
Between 1819 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote Matilda, her second novel following the classic Frankenstein. The story is reminiscent of Shelley's own life, if not outright autobiographical, with characters resembling herself, her husband Percy Shelley, and her father William Godwin. Matilda is an often overlooked literary gem written in the classic Romantic style with Matilda on her deathbed telling her tale full of loss, incest, and suicide.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Published in 1818, "Frankenstein" has spellbound readers for generations and has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in every medium. This freshly annotated, illustrated edition illuminates the novel and its electrifying afterlife.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...
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