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This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous bi[...]

"Both timely and terrifying." --Gregory Macguire, New York Times-bestselling author of WickedPairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations, Mary's Monster is a unique and stunning biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway who became one of[...]

The truly electric story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, this book--printed with special ink--literally glows in the dark Told with the verve and ghoulish fun of a Tim Burton film, The Lady and Her Monsters is a highly entertaining blend of literary history, lore, and early scientific exploration th[...]

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the chilling story of a scientist who suceeds in creating a fearful monster ... a monster that holds a terrible power over him and the people he loves. Essential Classics are a quick way into some of the most exciting classic novels. Includes glossary and a readin[...]

Traces the life of the English writer, describes her relationship with her poet husband, and discusses Frankenstein and her other novels[...]

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 Ca[...]

Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered[...]

""It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open...""
What you create can destroy you.
One freezing morning, a lone man wa[...]

Everyone is familiar with Mary Shelley's classic novel, but no one has read it like this! "Frankenstein" is the long celebrated gothic tale of a science experiment gone awry. But in this brand-new edition, Shelley's haunting horror story is transformed with the addition of steampunk-inspired art. Wi[...]