Mathilda, is the second novel by the British writer Mary Shelley, based on the classic themes of Romanticism, such as incest and suicide. It was written between August 1819 and February 1820. The activity of writing novellas distracted Mary Shelley of her grief after the death of her one year old, Clara, in Venice, which occurred in September 1818 and his three year old son, William, in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged to Mary Shelley in a depression that Percy Shelley emotionally distanced and left, he says, "the edge of despair." Matilda tells the story of his father's confession...

"Frankenstein" erzahlt die Geschichte des jungen Schweizers Viktor Frankenstein, der an der damals beruhmten Universitat Ingolstadt einen kunstlichen Menschen erschafft. Die Handlung wird durch eine Mischung aus Briefroman und klassischer Ich-Erzahlsituation vermittelt. Viktor Frankenstein erzahlt dem Leiter einer Forschungsexpedition, zugleich Eigner des Schiffes, das ihn in der Arktis rettet, seine Geschichte. Der Roman wird so zu einem Lehrstuck, gibt Frankenstein doch deutlich zu verstehen, dass seine Erzahlung auch eine Warnung an den Zuhorer und damit auch die Leser sein soll: Er warnt...

Grossdruck "Frankenstein" erzahlt die Geschichte des jungen Schweizers Viktor Frankenstein, der an der damals beruhmten Universitat Ingolstadt einen kunstlichen Menschen erschafft. Die Handlung wird durch eine Mischung aus Briefroman und klassischer Ich-Erzahlsituation vermittelt. Viktor Frankenstein erzahlt dem Leiter einer Forschungsexpedition, zugleich Eigner des Schiffes, das ihn in der Arktis rettet, seine Geschichte. Der Roman wird so zu einem Lehrstuck, gibt Frankenstein doch deutlich zu verstehen, dass seine Erzahlung auch eine Warnung an den Zuhorer und damit auch die Leser sein...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein," despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France in 1823.

Completely annotated and provided with maps, essays, and chilling illustrations, this unique edition of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" answers some of readers' most lingering questions, clarifies historical references, and probes into the sensitive biographical nature of Mary Shelley's landmark novel. One of the most influential masterpieces of horror in the English language, "Frankenstein" straddles science fiction, horror, romance, the weird tale, and the literary allegory. Aside from the monomaniacal student of dark arts, the pensive bride throttled in her uncreased wedding bed, and the...

History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni is a travel narrative by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Published in 1817, it describes two trips taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. Divided into three sections, the text consists of a journal, four letters, and Percy Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc." Apart from the poem, the text was primarily...