Mary Shelley
Список книг автора Mary ShelleyMary Shelley: The Ultimate Collection (All 7 Novels including Frankenstein, Short Stories, Bonus Audiobook Links & More)
"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand…"<br><br>Mary Shelley: literary queen of the Romantic era, deeply influenced by the Gothic tradition, and arguably the matriarch of the Science Fiction genre. Her works, though composed in the 1800s, contain elements straight out of today's headlines: the tension between what science can do vs. what it should do, cryonics, contagion, apocalypse and other dark futuristic themes. Shelley introduced the world to the first "mad scientist" character in her most popular work, Frankenstein, inspiring generations of horror stories, films, and comic books.<br><br>This collection includes:<br><br>Novels<br>Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus <br>Mathilda<br>The Last Man<br>Valperga<br>Lodore<br>Falkner<br>The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck<br><br>Children's Literature<br>Proserpine & Midas<br><br>Short Stories<br>The Dream<br>The Mortal Immortal<br>The Evil Eye<br>The Invisible Girl<br>The Heir of Mondolfo<br>Transformation<br><br>Non-Fiction<br>Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley<br><br>Biography<br>Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Rosetti<br><br>Audiobook Links: Links to download free, full-length audiobooks for some of Mary Shelley's works can be found at the end of the book.<br><br>About this Digital Papyrus edition<br><br>"Experience the Digital Papyrus Difference!"<br><br>We are devoted book lovers and formatting fanatics. Our team has experience producing thousands of ebooks since 2011 for discerning authors and readers alike. We know what readers expect from their ebook purchases. We avoid distracting formatting inconsistencies and annoying glitches too often found in ebooks. <br><br>We adhere to the highest standards in producing our ebooks–regardless of the sale price. (Low or value pricing should never be an excuse for second-rate work!)<br><br>We want readers of our ebooks to get lost in the story just as easily as readers of print books. Our promise is a pleasant reading experience. <br><br>10% of all Digital Papyrus profits are donated to charity every month.
A Dark and Stormy Night
It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenged the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire literature were birthed. Collected here for the first time are the four works produces as a result of that contest «Fragment Of A Ghost Story» by Percy Bysshe Shelley, «The Vampyre» by John William Polidori, «Fragment of a Novel» By Lord Byron, and of course, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein - The Original Classic Edition
This is a high quality book of the original classic edition. <p> This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. <p> Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: <p>
But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
<p>....But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection. <p>.... A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.
<p>....I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
<p>....I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.
Frankenstein
Eager science student Victor Frankenstein uses body parts of the dead to bring a creature to life. Although initially excited that his experiment is a success, Frankenstein becomes horrified at the grotesque being that stands before him and flees. Angered by the rejection, The Monster retaliates by taking the lives of those dearest to Frankenstein. The decision to play God torments both Frankenstein and The Monster he created until the end of their days.
