Mary, Wollstonecraft - Libros y biografía

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel 'The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck' tells the tale of a pretender to the English throne during the tumultuous years of the War of the Roses. Written in Shelley's trademark...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'The Heir of Mondolfo' is a captivating novel that explores themes of inheritance, power struggles, and the complexities of human relationships. Written in the gothic literary...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'Tales and Stories' is a collection of short narratives that showcase her unique literary style, blending elements of Gothic fiction with philosophical exploration. Each...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'History of a Six Weeks' Tour' is a captivating travelogue that provides a detailed account of her journey through France, Switzerland, and the Rhine. Written in a descriptive...

Nothing can be more unpresuming than this little volume. It contains the account of some desultory visits by a party of young people to scenes which are now so familiar to our countrymen, that few facts...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley' is a comprehensive collection of annotations, insights, and observations on the renowned Romantic poet's body...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel, 'The Last Man', is a masterpiece of early science fiction that tells the story of a global pandemic that wipes out most of humanity, leaving one man to wander the...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'Proserpine and Midas' is a captivating collection of two mythological retellings that showcases Shelley's adeptness at blending classical themes with her innovative storytelling....

Told as a story within a story, "Ferdinando Eboli" is set in Naples, Italy. The unnamed narrator describes himself as living in a peaceful era void of all thrilling wars such as the Napoleonic wars. The...

This highly imaginative work of Mary Shelley's twenty-sixth year contains some of the author's most powerful ideas ; but is marred in the commencement by some of her most stilted writing. The account...

The Dream is a short story by Mary Shelley and deals with a prophetic dream. Constance is in love with Gaspar, who fought on the other side of the French civil war. Since this side has killed her father...

History A Of 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,...

A gothic short story about a girl, whose portrait was found in an old, ruined tower. An old lady narrates then the story of Rosina, an orphan, who was thrown out of the house when Sir Peter discovered,...

Falkner, published in 1837, is the last novel by Mary Shelley;and as we see from her letter she had been passing through a period of ill-health and depression while writing it, this may account for less...

The Pole is a short story, that was written in close cooperation with Claire Clairmont.

"The Evil Eye" was published in January of 1829 by Mary Shelley for The Keepsake. The story is set in Albania and takes on a much different feel to the other short stories that Shelley published. The...

Ellen, the female protagonist, tells the story of her life. When her parents die and leave her 50.000 pound, she becomes ward of her uncle. After a secret betrothal with one of his sons, she founds out,...

The story begins on July 16, 1833, the apparent three hundred and twenty-third birthday of the narrator, Winzy, the self-styled "mortal immortal". Winzy recounts the series of events that lead him to...

Mary in her novel of Lodore, published in 1835, gave a version of the differences between Harriet and Shelley. Though Lord Lodore is more an impersonation of Mary's idea of Lord Byron than of Shelley,...

The Sisters of Albano is an Italian romance. As with all of Shelley's writings the biographical element is deeply interwoven. The story itself deals with class and gender issues in her time.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment....

"Euphrasia" is set in England at Christmastime in 1836. Four friends are traveling from Brighton to Lewes by horse and carriage. There is a snowstorm of historical proportion, and the party is stalled...

"The Parvenue" is told in first person by a narrator named Fanny. She begins by explaining that she has been so bewildered by the events she is about to retell that she leaves it to the reader to judge...

In thirteenth-century Florence, Italy, the pro-Papacy Guelphs have re-established supremacy and expelled the pro-imperial Ghibellines following the death of the Ghibelline Manfred, King of Sicily. The...

"The Mourner" is a story about a young man named Neville and a young lady named Ellen. In the beginning of the narration, Neville is walking with his fiance Juliet in Virginia Water. They come upon an...

"The Transformation" starts with the typical Shellian framework narrative where the narrator states that he feels compelled to tell his story despite swearing never to do so. The narrator's story begins...

One of Shelley's stories that show her love for Italy, Italian history, bloodlines and politics. The main plot concentrates on a family rivalry in Siena. The Mancinis and the Tolomeis are fierce opponents,...

Valperga, published in 1823, the year after Percy Bysshe Shelley's death is a romance of the 14th century in Italy, during the height of the struggle between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, when each...

In this novel, Mrs. Shelley sets out with the somewhat startling statement of her firm belief that Perkin Warbeck was in reality the lost Duke of York. She is of opinion, that it is impossible for anyone...

The Pilgrims tells the story of an hermit knight who gives shelter to two pilgrims. He begins to tell them about his dramatic and tragic life, when he suddenly perceives, that these pilgrims are not what...