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This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft, radical feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and Mary Shelley, her daughter, author of Frankenstein. In Mary (1788), Mary Wollstonecraft explores the position of an alienated intellectual woman and, in portraying her struggle against the constraints of a claustrophobic feminine world, began a line that would include the more substantial heroines of Jane Eyre and Villette. In the posthumously published Maria (1798) she continues in fiction the arguments of the Vindication. Mary Shelley wrote Matilda in 1819, while in mourning for her first son. William Godwin, Mary's father, found its subject of father-daughter incest so 'disgusting and detestable' that he refused to publish it and the work remained suppressed for over a century. In her illuminating introduction to this edition Janet Todd explores how these novels are linked, not only through the mother-daughter relationship of their authors, but in their perceptions of feminism and female sexuality and in their autobiographical richness.

Los 20 cuentos agrupados en La Eva fantástica son un reflejo de la atracciÛn que el tema de lo sobrenatural ha ejercido sobre las escritoras de todas las épocas. Desde Mary Shelley hasta Patricia Hig

Una expedición al Polo Norte se cruza, en mitad del mar helado, con un misterioso hombre gigantesco marchando en un trineo a toda velocidad. Horas después, rescatan a otro un hombre a punto de morir. Cuando este se recupera, relata al capitan la historia de como ha acabado alli, persiguiendo a aquella criatura monstruosa.Se trata de Victor Frankenstein, un joven avido de conocimientos cientificos, obsesionado con la posibilidad remota de dar vida a cuerpos inanimados. para conseguirlo, crea a partir de restos de cadaveres un "monstruo" al que dota de vida para despues aborrecerle. Su creacion, que solo solicita ser querido, reacciona con violencia ante el rechazo de su creador.

Rosina is secretly engaged to Henry, the son of her guardian Sir Peter Vernon. On discovering their relationship, an angry Sir Peter casts her out into the Welsh countryside and to her death.When Henry returns home, he is heartbroken and searches for Rosinas body, only to learn of a villagers tale about The Invisible Girl, a ghostly figure that wanders the woods at night. The Invisible Girl (1832) is a short, Gothic, ghost story by the English writer Mary Shelley, famous for her best-selling novel Frankenstein.

When Fanny is 17 years old, a house fire nearly kills her entire family and destroys their home. Lord Reginald Desborough saves her from the flames and the couple marry, but her fathers demands put her happiness in jeopardy and leaves Fanny with an impossible decision.This story mirrors the authors relationship with her own father, in its depiction of the money troubles that plague Fannys family and their constant demands on Lord Reginald.The Parvenue (1836) is a classic, short story by the English writer Mary Shelley, famous for her best-selling novel Frankenstein.

Mathilda, named after its narrator, traces a young womans troubled life from birth to her premature deathbed. Following her mothers death during childbirth and her fathers subsequent abandonment, Mathilda is raised by her aunt in rural Loch Lomond, Scotland. A gifted reader and promising intellectual, she rises from her difficult circumstances to lead a relatively happy childhood. When, at the age of 16, her father reenters her life, the two reconnect and eventually move together to London. As she begins to receive suitors however, her fathers strange jealousy and irrational behavior conceal a terrible secret. When he reveals his incestuous desires to Mathilda, she rejects him, resulting in his suicide and leaving her unmarried, orphaned, and financially unstable. Living in self-imposed exile, she befriends the similarly melancholy Woodville, a young widower and poet who does his best to care for her despite her crushing bouts of depression and frequent suicidal thoughts. Mathilda is an emotionally complex and ultimately difficult novella recognized for its controversial themes and for its parallels to Shelleys own tragic life.

"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion." A summer evening''s ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine''s room, and a runaway imagination--fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life--conspired to produce for Marry Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece, Frankenstein. Written in 1816 when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley''s novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time, Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.

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Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe text of this classic has here been simplified, vocabulary controlled and sentence structures chosen according to the level of the reader. The introduction provides information on the author and story, and there are exercises of comprehension and questions for discussion.

By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being from dead body parts, and animates this creature. The results, for Victor and for his family, are catastrophic.Written when Mary Shelley was just eighteen, Frankenstein was inspired by the ghost stories and vogue for Gothic literature that fascinated the Romantic writers of her time. She transformed these supernatural elements an epic parable that warned against the threats to humanity posed by accelerating technological progress.Published for the 200th anniversary, this edition, based on the original 1818 text, explains in detail the turbulent intellectual context in which Shelley was writing, and also investigates how her novel has since become a byword for controversial practices in science and medicine, from manipulating ecosystems to vivisection and genetic modification. As an iconic study of power, creativity, and, ultimately, what it is to be human, Frankenstein continues to shape our thinking in profound ways to this day.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein", despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novels subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel.

Víctor Frankenstein crea un monstre i li dóna vida. Pero quan ho aconsegueix renega del que ha creat. Aquest monstre, de proporcions i força descomunals, es incompres i odiat per tothom i es revenja del seu creador tot iniciant una espiral de terror.Les lectures de tota la vida, per als lectors d'avui.