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 the Original 1818 Text : (Reader's Library Classics)

    Mary Shelley

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  2. Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

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  3. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

    Mary Shelley

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  4. Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

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  5. Frankenstein (1818 & 1831 edition)

    Mary Shelley

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  6. 50 Eternal Masterpieces Turned Into Famous Animated Movies (Golden Deer Classics) : Rapunzel, Snow-White, Peter Pan, Tarzan, Pinocchio, Alice In Wonderland, Pocahontas...

    Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, Golden Deer Classics, Brothers Grimm, Jack London, Jules Verne, Daniel Defoe, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Youhenna Diab, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Aesop, Charles Perrault, Anonymous, Charles Dickens, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Louis Stevenson, unknown, J.M. Barrie, Carlo Collodi, Lyman Frank Baum, Howard Pyle, Grimm Brothers, Johann David Wyss, Kenneth Grahame, Washington Irving, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Shelley, James Otis Kaler, Eleanor H. Porter, Felix Summerly, Henry Cole, Ernest L. Thayer

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  7. Frankenstein :

    Mary Shelley

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  8. 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die

    Frances Hodgson Burnett, Homer, Charles Dickens, Lyman Frank Baum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Haggard, Wilkie Collins, H.G. Wells, Sir Walter Scott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Leo Tolstoy, Euripides, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, John Bunyan, Charles Darwin, Alfred Tennyson, Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Dante Alighieri, Howard Pyle, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Giovanni Boccaccio, Rudyard Kipling

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  9. B. J. Harrison Reads Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

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  10. Frankenstein 1818

    Mary Shelley, knowledge house

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  11. 15+ Masterpieces of Gothic Horror. Classics Collection : Frankenstein, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw and others

    Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Sheridan Le Fanu, Henry James, Arthur Machen, Nikolai Gogol

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  12. 75+ Horror Anthologies

    Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Francis Marion Crawford, Robert W. Chambers

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