I beseech you, fair Mistress, said Lovel, who now joined them, "to forget, even in private, such high-sounding titles. It is dangerous to play at majesty, unaided by ten thousand armed assertors of our right.

It was, perhaps, strange that Fitzhenry, alive to the smallest evil that might approach his darling child, and devoted to her sole guardianship, should have been blind to the sort of danger which she ran during his absence.

THE HORROR CLASSIC Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece novel introduced the world to Baron Victor Frankenstein and his quest to create new life from death, resulting in the birth of one of the most famous and iconic monsters in history. Frankenstein's creation brings ruin and despair to Victor... and death to many, many others. One of the most famous and influential horror novels of all time.

Falkner is an exceptional book, and a fitting last chapter to Mary Shelley's career. Sometimes it is said that the great writers examine the world around them, and then write about what they see in it.

Valperga (1823), the novel Mary Shelley wrote after Frankenstein, is based on the life of Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), Prince of Lucca. A brilliant soldier and cruel tyrant, he successfully commanded Ghibelline forces in Tuscany against the Guelphs.

A dystopian science fiction novel by the author of Frankenstein.

The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The plague gradually kills off all people. Lionel Verney, central character, son of a nobleman who gambled himself into poverty, finds himself immune after being attacked by an infected "negro," and copes with a civilization that is gradually dying out around him.

The novel begins with explorer Robert Walton looking for a new passage from Russia to the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic Ocean. After weeks as sea, the crew of Walton's ship finds an emaciated man, Victor Frankenstein, floating on an ice flow near death. In Walton's series of letters to his sister in England, he retells Victor's tragic story. Growing up in Geneva, Switzerland, Victor is a precocious child, quick to learn all new subjects. He is raised with Elizabeth, an orphan adopted by his family. Victor delights in the sciences and vows to someday study science. Victor prepares to leave for...

Few monsters of horror have captured readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished creature of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein's awful creation and the mayhem it caused has fascinated millions of readers and inspired nearly all writers of suspense and horror. This Fantasy Illustrated version is complete with over 20 Black and White Sketches from Shelley's own mystical and haunting Era. Perfect edition for school or summer reading. Makes a great gift as well. PRESS ADD TO CART BUTTON NOW

The most important and complete annotated volume of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ever compiled appears for the 200th anniversary of the original publication.