Essential Novelists - Mary Shelley : first lady of science fiction

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For this book, the literary criticAugust Nemohas chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofMary Shelley which are Frankenstein and The Last Man..

Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most famous novel, Frankenstein. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835) and the posthumously published Mathilde. Shelley died of brain cancer on February 1, 1851, in London, England.

Novels selected for this book:

- Frankenstein

- The Last Man

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  1. Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne

    Mary Shelley

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  2. Frankenstein ou Le Prométhée moderne (Tome 1)

    Mary Shelley

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  3. Frankenstein ou Le Prométhée moderne (nouvelle traduction)

    Mary Shelley

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  4. 50 Chefs-D'œuvre Que Vous Devez Lire Avant De Mourir : Vol 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    Mark Twain, Stendhal, Edgar Allan Poe, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Conan Doyle, René Descartes, Lewis Carroll, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Golden Deer, Alain-Fournier, Jules Amédée d'Aurevilly, Paul Bourget, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Pierre Corneille, Nikolai Gogol, Gustave Leroux, Marquis De Sade, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Daniel Lesueur, Marcel Proust, Edmond Rostand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Sun Tzu, Rodolphe Töpffer, Vatsyayana, Jules Verne, Voltaire, H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola

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  5. Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne

    Mary Shelley

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  6. Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

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  7. World's Greatest Short Stories

    Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Mateo Falcone, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Guy De Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Jack London, E. M. Forster

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  8. Monstrueuses créatures

    William Chambers Morrow, Mary Shelley, Marc Donat, Edgar Allan Poe

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  9. Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Unabridged and Complete Edition : (A Mary Shelley Classics)

    Mary Shelley

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  10. Frankenstein : New Edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic Masterpiece

    Mary Shelley

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  11. Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

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  12. 60 Gothic Classics : Exploring the Haunting Depths of Classic Gothic Literature

    Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anna Katharine Green, George MacDonald, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Godwin, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, John Meade Falkner, George Eliot, Robert Hugh Benson, Horace Walpole, Frederick Marryat, Thomas love Peacock, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Grant Allen, Arthur Machen, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Charles Brockden Brown, James Hogg, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Marsh, Charles Robert Maturin, John William Polidori, H.G. Wells, W. Jacobs, H.P. Lovecraft, William Thomas Beckford, Nikolai Gogol, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Fitz-James O’Brien, Eliza Parsons

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