BOOKS by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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1	Frankenstein more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Frankenstein,or The modern Prometheus more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein ranks among the most enduring horror tales ever imagined. The groaning Monster, bolts erupting from his neck and stitches fastening his square brow, is famous worldwide. But the creature born in Mary Shelley's mind nearly two hundred years ago was far more complex: murderous and raging, but also articulate, lonely, and gravely ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Vindication of the Rights of Woman more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| first editions
4	Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Responses, Modern Criticism more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, J. Paul Hunter (Editor) This "Norton Critical Edition" of "Frankenstein" contains the 1818 first edition text. Only the obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The book also includes writings by Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and John William Polidori, enabling the reader to place the novel in its historical context. Six 19th-century responses ... see all copies from £6.07! new only from £7.51! \| first editions
5	Frankenstein: A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Written in 1816 when she was only 19, for a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's novel of "the modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.38!
6	Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Marilyn Butler (Editor) "Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. It tells the story of how a young student of natural philosophy learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences. The story confronts ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £6.12!
7	Frankenstein more books like this by Mary Shelly Dorothy Louise's remarkable new adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic story rescues it from simplistic notions of horror and fear. She remains faithful to Shelley's intention to show how the Creature of Victor Frankenstein gradually grows into malignity because of the continual rejection he experiences and the refusal of his creator to respond to ... see all copies from £5.08! new only from £5.08! \| first editions
8	Last man more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "[Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work." - Muriel Spark. "In our era of AIDS and biological warfare, Shelley's apocalyptic vision of an incurable plague that gradually destroys the entire human species resonates with mythic power." - Anne K. Mellor. ""The Last Man" created an entirely new genre, compounded of the ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.59! \| first editions
9	Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker, Professor Robert Louis Stevenson A spine-tingling collection of terrifying classics with an introduction by horror master Stephen King. The mesmerizing story of a demented scientist's monster creation; the horror masterpiece that has led to countless vampire novels and films; and the ultimate tale of the never-ending battle between good and evil--these frightening works continue ... see all copies from £4.14! new only from £4.14!
10	Valperga, Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "The earth is a wide sea," she cried, "and we its passing bubbles; it is a changeful heaven, and we its smallest and swiftest driven vapours; all changes, all passes nothing is stable, nothing for one moment the same." Valperga (1823), the novel Mary Shelley wrote after Frankenstein, is based on the life of Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), ... see all copies from £6.16! new only from £13.10! \| first editions
11 view cover	Maria or the Wrongs of Woman more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft In this book Mary Wollstonecraft pursues in fiction the themes set forth by her in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792). It exposes the legal and social injustices faced by all women, dramatizing the extent to which a married woman under English law was her husband's property. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £2.89! \| first editions
12 view cover	Mary; Maria; Matilda more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (Editor) These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £9.80!
13 view cover	Frankenstein / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley more books like this by Mark Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Written in 1816 when she was only 19, for a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's novel of "the modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54!
14 view cover	The Mary Shelley Reader more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Professor Charles E Robinson (Editor), Professor Betty T Bennett (Editor) This is a unique selection of the works of Mary Shelley, adding to Frankenstein some of her other works which have not been readily available. The volume includes the novella Mathilda, (an extraordinary story of incest, guilt, and responsibility), selections from her short stories, essays, reviews, letters, and poems, plus a selected bibliography. see all copies from £5.86! new only from £7.28! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Essential Frankenstein: The Definitive, Annotated Edition of Mary Shelley's Classicnovel more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leonard Wolf (Editor) This illustrated edition of "Frankenstein" contains the complete text of Mary Shelley's 1816 novel, as well as illustrations and annotations. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £72.76! \| first editions
16	Making Humans: Frankenstein and the Island of Dr. Moreau more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, H G Wells, Judith Wilt In pairing these two famous gothic science fiction novels for the first time, this volume provides a rare opportunity to explore numerous topics common to both texts, such as the nature of the human and the limits and promises of the proliferating natural sciences in the 19th century. Additional works include writings by other 19th-century authors ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £10.35!
17 view cover	Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus more books like this by D. L. MacDonald (Editor), Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, K. D. Scherf (Editor) Written in 1816 when she was only 19, in a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's novel of "the modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, FRANKENSTEIN remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an undisputed ... see all copies from £5.54!
18 view cover	Mary and the Wrongs of Woman more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft, Gary Kelly (Editor) 'I have lately written...a tale, to illustrate an opinion of mine, that a genius will educate itself.' Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. Expressed most forcefully in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), her forthright opinions also inform ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.96!
19 view cover	Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Richard Holmes (Notes by) In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: "A Short Residence in Sweden" is the record of Wollstonecraft's last journey in search of happiness, into the remote and beautiful backwoods of Scandinavia ... see all copies from £5.12! new only from £7.99!
20 view cover	Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Tale more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Claire Tomalin In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was "Maurice," the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after "Frankenstein," "Maurice" is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.89! \| first editions
21 view cover	Frankenstein more books like this by Globe Fearon Written in 1816 when she was only 19, for a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's novel of "the modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £36.10!
22 view cover	Vindication of the Rights of Women more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha Pollitt (Introduction by) This is Mary Wollstonecraft's most famous work. While she does not seek to undermine the family, she argues strongly for a woman's right to enter any sphere of activity she chooses, affirming a woman's right to fulfilment as a human and not merely as a sexual being. This was a view inevitably limited by the age in which she wrote, and this edition ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £8.53!
23 view cover	Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus, the Pennyroyal Edition more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The California edition of the Pennyroyal Press "Frankenstein" unites the dark side of Barry Moser's art with the classic 1818 text of Mary Shelley's tale of moral transfiguration. In a vivid sequence of woodcuts, the reader witnesses the birth of the "monster" as Moser shapes him from darkness and gives him a form simultaneously ghastly in its ... see all copies from £4.61! new only from £10.59!
24 view cover	A Wollstonecraft Anthology more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet M Todd (Editor), Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft is widely recognized as a social and political thinker of major significance and as one of the most important and influential of the early feminists. Some of her works, such as "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", have become central texts of feminist thought. Written in the eighteenth century, her social commentary ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.86! \| first editions
25 view cover	Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein more books like this by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator) Few works by comic-book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein" was met with upon its original release in 1983. Twenty-five years later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest ... see all copies from £16.51! new only from £16.51!

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