Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
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The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reveal a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. They date from October 1814 - shortly after her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley - through September 1850, five months before her death. Her correspondents' names are familiar - Shelley himself, Byron, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, General Lafayette, Sir Walter Scott - and the letters abound with anecdotes about such eminent figures as her parents (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), Keats, Washington Irving, and Charles and Mary Lamb. Publication of the widely acclaimed three-volume edition of Mary Shelley's letters was completed in 1988, containing all 1,276 of her known extant letters. Now Betty T. Bennett has selected 230 of those letters to give an overview of Mary Shelley's life as she was seeing it, living it, and recording it. Bennett also includes an introductory essay that sketches a portrait of Mary Shelley, her world, and her place in the history of literature and letters.

Lodore

Lodore
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1835
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Frankenstein

Frankenstein
Author: Mary Mary Shelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2021-07-21
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A masterpiece. A must-read.

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
Author: Esther Schor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2003-11-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139826735

Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.

Falkner Illustrated

Falkner Illustrated
Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2021-06-03
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Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. The tragedy is one of the last two tragedies written by Shakespeare,

The Last Man Annotated

The Last Man Annotated
Author: Mary W Shelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2021-02-17
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The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel. The book tells of a future world (the first-person narrative is that of a man living at the end of the 21st century) that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s.