SHELLEY MARY

(H/B) FRANKENSTEIN
Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh and then, horrified at what he has done, abandons his creation. The creature, an outcast because of his appearance, learns language and becomes civilized, but when rejected by society seeks revenge on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction in which Frankenstein and his 'monster' lose all vestig...
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(P/B) MATHILDA
Mathilda is Mary Shelley's haunting story of an incestuous and fatal love. The narrative traces the teenaged Mathilda's reunion with her unnamed father, and the development of their obsessive bond that culminates in suicide. Shelley's own father, William Godwin, was so disturbed after reading the manuscript that he refused to return it to her and it remained unpublished for over one hundred years. This near-forgotten and harrowing work encompasses the Romantic themes of the individual's growth, isolation, and the power of imagination. Shel...
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(P/B) FRANKENSTEIN
Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley’s chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron’s villa on Lake Geneva. Frankenstein would become the world’s most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastatin...
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Ο ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΟΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ
Το προφητικό μυθιστόρημα της μεγάλης Αγγλίδας συγγραφέψς, που παρέμεινε επί 182 χρόνια στη σκιά του "Φρανκεστάιν". "Ανέβηκαν τον απότομο βράχο, αλλά το σκοτάδι τους επέτρεπε να δουν μόνο τις λευκές κορυφές των κυμάτων, ενώ τα ουρλιαχτά του ανέμου αναμειγνύονταν σε τρομερή συμφωνία με τα άγρια κύματα. Η φοβερή ώρα της νύχτας, η απόλυτη απειρία πολλών, που ποτέ στο παρελθόν δεν είχαν ξαναδεί τη θάλασσα, οι γοερές κραυγές των γυναικών και τα κλάματα των παιδιών έκαναν μεγαλύτερη τη φρίκη του ορυμαγδού. Όλη την επόμενη μέρα συνεχίστηκε το ίδι...
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ΤΟ ΚΑΚΟ ΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΛΕΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ
Το Κακό Μάτι Ο διάδοχος του Μοντόλφο Μεταμόρφωση...
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ΦΡΑΝΚΕΝΣΤΑΙΝ 'Η Ο ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΑΣ
Ο μύθος του σύγχρονου Προμηθέα από τη Μαίρη Σέλει εξακολουθεί να είναι ένα από τα πιο δημοφιλή και ατμοσφαιρικά μυθιστορήματα. Μια λαμπρή σύνθεση φιλοσοφίας, λογοτεχνικών ρευμάτων και προσωπικού οραματισμού, ο "Φρανκεστάιν" σύντομα αναγνωρίστηκε ως ένα από τα σημαντικότερα μυθιστορήματα της εποχής του. Η υπεροπτική πράξη της δημιουργίας του Φρανκεστάιν και η καταδικασμένη προσπάθεια του ανθρώπου να εισχωρήσει στα μυστικά της φύσης περιγράφονται με τρόπο συγκλονιστικό από τη Μαίρη Σέλει. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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VALPERGA
"This is a superb edition of Mary Shelley's historical romance "Valperga". Professor Rajan provides an extremely illuminating introduction to the novel, one that is finely informed by her extensive knowledge of women's literary history, Italian history, British Romanticism, and critical theory. She sensitively analyses the ways in which Shelley's complex bio-textual relationships to both her husband and her father play out in the novel. She also provides extensive and invaluable annotations, chronologies, appendices of relevant writings by...
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ΦΡΑΝΚΕΝΣΤΑΙΝ
Η πλοκή: Η ιστορία του Γερμανού φοιτητή Βίκτωρα Φρανκενστάιν που ανακαλύπτει το μυστικό της ζωής, ενσταλάζει ζωή στην άψυχη ύλη και δημιουργεί ένα τέρας που στο τέλος τον καταστρέφει. Η ιστορία τριών αδυσώπητων ψυχών που διασταυρώνονται στη ζώνη του λυκόφωτος, από τις χιονισμένες κορυφές των Άλπεων και τους παγετώνες της Ελβετίας μέχρι τις παγωμένες θάλασσες της Αρκτικής, αναζητώντας την έσχατη ουσία της Δημιουργίας. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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FRANKENSTEIN
Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes a new 'man' out of plundered corpses, his hideous creation fills him disgust. Rejected by all humanity, the creature sets out to destroy Frankenstein and everyone he loves. And as the monster gets ever closer to his maker, hunter becomes prey in a lethal chase that carries them to the very end of the earth. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FRANKENSTEIN
Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley's finest work. This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author. The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It is accompanied by an expansive new preface, explanatory annotations, a map of Geneva and its environs, and seven illustr...
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FRANKENSTEIN
D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf's edition of Frankenstein has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding edition of the novel - for the general reader and the student as much as for the scholar. The editors use as their copy-text the original 1818 version, and detail in an appendix all of Shelley's later revisions. They also include a range of contemporary documents that shed light on the historical context from which this unique masterpiece emerged. New to this edition is a discussion of Percy Shelley's role in contributing to the first ...
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THE LAST MAN

LODORE
Beset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife's, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother. Lodore'...
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TRANSFORMATION
Having squandered away his wealth, the feckless Guido returns home to claim the hand of the celestial Juliet, but finds himself censured by her father. Petulant at his chastisement, his Byronic temperament gets the better of him, and he is sentenced to banishment. Plotting his revenge, he witnesses a mighty tempest, and from the raging sea emerges a strange figure. Although he is initially repelled by the dwarfish form before him, the stranger soon makes him an offer he can't refuse, but by surrendering his identity and selling his soul t...
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