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Experience 19th-century Europe through the insightful eyes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in "Rambles in Germany and Italy." This captivating travelogue, originally published in 1844, chronicles Shelley''s journeys through Germany and Italy in the 1840s. Volume 1 offers a unique historical perspective on these regions, capturing the landscapes, cultures, and social dynamics of the time. Shelley, renowned author of "Frankenstein," brings her keen observational skills and literary talent to this vivid account. Readers will be transported to the heart of Europe, traversing picturesque landscapes and engaging with the vibrant tapestry of German and Italian life. This meticulously prepared edition allows you to follow in Shelley''s footsteps, offering a glimpse into a world long past. Perfect for those interested in travel history, European culture, and the life and works of Mary Shelley. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mathilda" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

메리 셸리 최후의 장편소설 : 작가 메리 셸리(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)하면 현재까지도 SF의 고전으로 널리 읽히는 충격적인 데뷔작 프랑켄슈타인 : 혹은 현대의 프로메테우스(Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus)(1818)를 떠올리실 것입니다만, 8년 후 출간한 최후의 인간(The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)(1826) 또한 주목할 만한 가치가 있습니다. 1826년 영국 런던과 파리에서 출간되었으며, 1833년에는 미국에서 해적판으로 출간되었습니다. 전작의 호평이 무색하게, 최후의 인간은 평론가들의 혹평을 면치 못하고 메리 셸리의 잊혀진 장편소설로 남았습니다. 테마여행신문 TTN Korea 영어고전(English Classics)과 함께 어제도, 오늘도, 내일도 멋진 문학여행을! B “Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones.” “시와 그 창작물, 철학, 그리고 그 연구 및 분류는 모두 제 마음 속의 잠자는 생각을 깨웠고, 제게 새로운 생각을 주었습니다.” 메리 셸리 자전적 소설(Biographical elements) : 최후의 인간(The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)(1826)은 작가 본인은 물론 작가의 남편과 절친한 시인 바이런 경에서 착안한 캐릭터를 등장시킨 자전적인 소설(Biographical elements)인 동시에 인류의 미래에 대한 디스토피아적 공상을 담은 아포칼립스 SF 소설(an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel)입니다. 메리의 시아버지 티모시 쉘리 경(Sir Timothy Shelley)은 그녀가 남편 퍼시 비시 셸리(Percy Bysshe Shelley)가 평생 집필한 시를 모아 출간하는 것은 허락했으나, 남편에 대한 전기 출판은 금지했기 때문에, 이 작품은 그녀가 작가로써 남편에 대한 사랑과 애정을 표현할 수 있는 유일한 방법이기도 했습니다. 중요한 등장인물인 영국 왕의 아들 아드리안(Adrian, Earl of Windsor)이 낙원을 찾아 항해하던 중 폭풍으로 인하여 침몰해 사망하는 것은 남편이 실제로 항해 중에 익사한 것과 흡사합니다. 제6대 바이런 남작 조지 고든 바이런(George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, 1790~1824)을 모델로 한 레이몬드 경(Lord Raymond) 또한 평생 영국 밖에서 떠돌며 방랑한 낭만주의자 시인의 삶과 닮은 부분이 적지 않습니다. 바이런 경은 실제로 그리스 독립 전쟁(1821~1829)에서 사망하였습니다. “Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.” “그녀의 표정은 온통 표정이었습니다; 그녀의 눈은 어둡지는 않았지만 깊이 박혀 있었습니다; 당신은 그들의 지적 눈초리에서 공간을 하나씩 발견하는 것 같았습니다.” 2073년부터 2100년까지 인류의 미래에 대한 이야기 : 최후의 인간(The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)(1826)은 작가가 1818년 이탈리아 나폴리의 시빌 동굴(Sibyl''s cave)에서 발견한 예언서를 발견했다고 밝히는 것으로 시작합니다. 이후의 내용은 발견자인 작가가 2073년부터 2100년까지, 삼십 여년에 걸친 쿠마에 무녀(Cumaean Sibyl)의 이야기를 남자 주인공의 1인칭 시점으로 서술한 것입니다. 주인공 리오넬 버니(Lionel Verney)는 아버지는 영국 왕의 절친임에도 불구하고 여동생과 함께 부모 없이 극도로 빈곤한 환경에서 성장하였습니다. 이후 영국 왕의 아들 아드리안(Adrian, Earl of Windsor), 그리스에서 터키와 맞서 싸운 전쟁 영웅 레이몬드 경(Lord Raymond)과 교류하며 시대의 격변에 휩쓸립니다. 전쟁에 이은 전염병의 대규모 발발로 인해 모든 것이 무너진 시대... 그들은 생존을 위해 새로운 낙원을 찾아 영국을 떠나 프랑스, 이탈리아, 스위스를 거쳐 그리스로 떠납니다. 성공을 기약할 수 없는 장구한 여정에서 모든 일행이 숨을 거두었고, 리오넬 버니만이 개와 함께 살아남습니다. 책 제목은 바로 ‘인류 최후의 순간까지 살아남은 주인공’을 은유하며, 그가 2100년까지 남긴 기록이 서두에서 작가가 발견한 쿠마에 무녀(Cumaean Sibyl)의 예언서입니다. 메리 셸리는 소설에서 인류는 동식물에게는 아무런 영향이 없으나, 오직 인간만을 죽음으로 이끄는 전염병(the plague)으로 멸종할 것이라 예견하였는데, 이는 코로나19로 인해 전 세계 확진자 1.8억 명, 사망자 사백만 명을 돌파한 2021년이기에 더더욱 소름끼치는 전망이 아닐까 싶습니다. “I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.” “저는 지구 전체를 지도처럼 펼쳐놓았습니다. 그 어떤 표면에서도 손가락 하나 까딱하지 않고 "여기 안전이 있습니다."라고 말할 수 없었습니다.” 디스토피아 소설(a dystopian novel)의 효시 : 인류의 비극적인 미래를 다룬 최후의 인간(The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)(1826)은 이후 헉슬리의 멋진 신세계(Brave New World)(1932), 조지 오웰의 1984(Nineteen Eighty-Four)(1949) 등으로 이어지며 디스토피아 소설(a dystopian novel)이란 장르를 개척한 작품으로 평가됩니다. 멋진 신세계나 1984가 절대 권력에 지배받는 민중들의 억압과 이에 대한 저항을 그렸다면, 메리 셸리의 작품에서는 이 같은 정치적인 색채는 찾아볼 수 없는 것이 특징입니다. “Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ''life,'' that we may live.” “서로 그리고 행복을 위해 살자. 사랑하는 집, 내륙의 시냇물 근방, 우아한 물결, 아름다운 땅의 숲, 그리고 하늘의 웅장한 아름다움 속에서 평화를 찾자. 우리가 살 수 있도록 ''삶''을 떠나자고요.” -목차(Index)- 프롤로그(Prologue). 테마여행신문 TTN Korea 영어고전(English Classics) 999선을 읽어야 하는 7가지 이유 조명화 편집장의 17가지 키워드로 읽는 메리 셸리(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) 01. 아버지 윌리엄 고드윈(William Godwin) 02. 어머니 메리 울스턴크래프트(Mary Wollstonecraft) 03. 사랑의 도피인가, 유부남과의 불륜인가? 03-1. 유부남 남편을 얻고, 네 자녀를 잃다. 03-2. 퍼시 비시 셸리의 시집 전집(Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley)(1839) 04. 1816년 스위스 제네바 빌라 디오다티(Villa Diodati)에서는 대체 무슨 일이 있었을까? 04-1. 영국 3대 낭만주의 시인 바이런이 처자식을 버린 쓰레기라고?! 04-2. 조지 고든 바이런(George Gordon Byron)의 파편(Fragment of a Novel)(1816) 04-3. 존 윌리엄 폴리돌리(John William Polidori)의 뱀파이어(The Vampyre)(1819) 04-4. 바이런의 딸 러브레이스 백작부인 어거스터 에이다 킹(Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace) 05. 인도네시아 탐보라 화산(Gunung Tambora)(1815)이 폭발하지 않았다면, 프랑켄슈타인은 탄생하지 않았다?! 06. 소설 프랑켄슈타인(Frankenstein)(1818)이 익명으로 출간된 이유는? 07. 소설 프랑켄슈타인(Frankenstein)(1818)은 세계 최초의 SF?! 08. 영화 프랑켄슈타인(Frankenstein)(1931) 09. 프랑켄슈타인(Frankenstein)이 괴물 이름이 아니라고?! 10. 오디오북(Audio Books)으로 듣는 메리 셸리(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) 11. 메리 셸리(Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) 어록(Quote) 메리 셸리의 최후의 인간(The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)(1826) VOL. 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Oulton 영어고전110 메리 셸리의 최후의 인간 English Classics110 The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 영어고전111 메리 셸리의 마틸다 English Classics111 Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 영어고전112 메리 셸리의 테일즈 앤 스토리즈 English Classics112 Tales and Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 영어고전113 메리 셸리의 프로세르핀과 미다스 English Classics113 Proserpine and Midas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 영어고전114 셸리 부부의 6주간의 여행 이야기 English Classics114 History of a Six Weeks’ Tour by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley 영어고전115 메리 셸리의 포크너 English Classics115 Falkner: A Novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 영어고전116 메리 셸리의 발페르가 English Classics116 Valperga by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 영어고전117 메리 셸리의 퍼시 비시 셸리의 시전집 English Classics117 Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Shelley 영어고전118 메리 셸리의 로도어 English Classics118 Lodore by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 영어고전119 루이스 캐럴의 거울 나라의 앨리스 English Classics119 Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 영어고전120 루이스 캐럴의 지하 세계의 앨리스 English Classics120 Alice''s Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll 테마여행신문 TTN Theme Travel News Korea는 2012년부터 현재까지 900종 이상의 콘텐츠를 기획 및 출간한 여행 전문 디지털 콘텐츠 퍼블리셔(Digital Contents Publisher)입니다. 다양한 분야의 전문작가와 함께 신개념 여행 가이드북 원코스(1 Course), 포토에세이 원더풀(Onederful), 여행에세이 별 헤는 밤(Counting the Stars at Night) 등 전 세계를 아우르는 분야별 여행 콘텐츠를 정기적으로 발행하고 있습니다. 더 나아가 인문 교양서 지식의 방주(Knowledge''s Ark)와 知의 바이블(Bible of Knowledge), 실용서 원샷(1 Shot)과 IT로켓(IT Rocket) 등 새로운 분야와 여행의 콜라보에도 지속적으로 도전하고 있습니다. 국내 최고 & 최다 여행 콘텐츠 디지털 퍼블리셔 테마여행신문 TTN Korea(방송대 기네스상 2017 ‘최다 출간 및 최다 자격증’ 수상)와 함께 어제도, 오늘도, 내일도 멋진 여행을! 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"Proserpine is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writer''s Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the blank verse drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems. Composed in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy, it is often considered a partner to the Shelleys'' play Midas. Proserpine was first published in the London periodical The Winter''s Wreath in 1832. Whether the drama was ever intended to be staged is a point of debate among scholars.The drama is based on Ovid''s tale of the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, which itself was based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Mary Shelley''s version focuses on the female characters. In a largely feminist retelling from Ceres''s point of view, Shelley emphasizes the separation of mother and daughter and the strength offered by a community of women. Ceres represents life and love, and Pluto represents death and violence. The genres of the text also reflect gender debates of the time. Percy contributed in the lyric verse form traditionally dominated by men; Mary created a drama with elements common to early nineteenth-century women''s writing: details of everyday life and empathetic dialogue.Proserpine is part of a female literary tradition that, as feminist literary critic Susan Gubar describes it, has used the story of Ceres and Proserpine to re-define, to re-affirm, and to celebrate female consciousness itself. However, the play has been both neglected and marginalised by critics."

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. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley''s name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she traveled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)-where much of the story takes place-and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the story within the novel. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story, because unlike in previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays. Since publication of the novel, the name "Frankenstein" is often used to refer to the monster itself.

During the voyage, the crew spots a dog sled driven by a gigantic figure. A few hours later, the crew rescues a nearly frozen and emaciated man named Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein has been a pursuit of the gigantic man observed by Walton''s crew. Frankenstein starts to recover from his exertion; he sees in Walton the same obsession and has destroyed him. and recounts a story of his life''s miseries to Walton as a waring. The recounted story serves as the frame for Frankenstein''s narrative.

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 written and organised by Mary Shelley. In 1840 she revised the journal and the letters, republishing them in a collection of Percy Shelley''s writings.

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft''s unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work. Wollstonecraft''s philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it. However, the heroine''s inability to relinquish her romantic fantasies also reveals women''s collusion in their oppression through false and damaging sentimentalism. The novel pioneered the celebration of female sexuality and cross-class identification between women. Such themes, coupled with the publication of Godwin''s scandalous Memoirs of Wollstonecraft''s life, made the novel unpopular at the time it was published. Twentieth-century feminist critics embraced the work, integrating it into the history of the novel and feminist discourse. It is most often viewed as a fictionalized popularization of the Rights of Woman, as an extension of Wollstonecraft''s feminist arguments in Rights of Woman, and as autobiographical.

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Few creatures of horror have seized readers'' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein''s terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel''s enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron''s."We will each write a story," Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron''s proposal.The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, "would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror - one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."

"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 story is centered on its namesake, Dmitri of the Evil Eye, who was a distinguished Albanian citizen, married, and with a happy child. He returned home from a trip to find that his home has been ransacked, his wife had been killed and his daughter had been kidnapped. Such a traumatizing discovery drives him into a life of crime, becoming a renowned robber and criminal greatly feared throughout Albania. During one of his revengeful adventures, Dmitri is critically wounded, but is found and nursed back to life by a man named Katushius Ziani. In return for his life, Dmitri promised loyalty to Ziani ... (courtesy of mary-shelley-wikia.com)

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein. Mary insisted that women must be educated according to their class, since they had the major responsibility educating the nation''s children. Mary was a radical thinker throughout her life. Mary Shelley''s works often argue that cooperation and sympathy as practiced by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic views promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories of her father William Godwin. Percy Blysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) was a major English Romantic poet who was considered to be the greatest lyric poet in the English language. His major works were long visionary poems including, Alastor, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life. Shelley was a strong advocate for social justice for the ''lower classes''. He witnessed many of the mistreatments occurring in the domestication and slaughtering of animals and he became a fighter for the rights of all living things.

Un joven estudiante de medicina, Víctor Frankenstein, en su afán por desentrañar los secretos del alma humana, crea a partir de restos de cadáveres un nuevo ser; pero es tal el horror de su apariencia que se ve condenado a la más cruel de las soledades, y el deseo de una lenta y maquiavélica venganza empieza a cobrar fuerza en su interior...

Contains the complete text of Shelley''s key work, supplemented by annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.

Advanced. Speed Level 6 (100-110 wpm). A huge powerful monster has set out to avenge his painful and horrible life. Made from parts of dead bodies this famous but tragic character has a horrible life because of his horrible maker a crazy scientist. A legendary horror story.

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. It would become the world''s most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

"Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley" by Mary W. Shelley is a literary analysis and commentary produced in the early 19th century. This work aims to illuminate the poetic genius of Percy Bysshe Shelley, detailing not only the context and origins of his poems but also providing critical insights into his thoughts and emotions that influenced his writing. The opening portion of the text begins with Mary Shelley''s preface, where she expresses her duty to present a definitive collection of her husband''s works. She reflects on Shelley''s character and passions, emphasizing his noble desire for social justice and his deep engagement with both the beauty of nature and the plight of humanity. She categorizes his poetry into imaginatively rich pieces and those that spring from personal emotions, underscoring how his life experiences shaped the themes of love, freedom, and grief in his verses. This preface sets the stage for understanding Shelley''s profound influence on literature and his enduring legacy as a visionary poet. (This is an automatically generated summary.).

The California edition of the Pennyroyal Press "Frankenstein" unites the dark side of Barry Moser''s art with the classic 1818 text of Mary Shelley''s tale of moral transfiguration. In a vivid sequence of woodcuts, the reader witnesses the birth of the "monster" as Moser shapes him from darkness and gives him a form simultaneously ghastly in its malice and transfixing in its suffering.

The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reveal a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. They date from October 1814 - shortly after her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley - through September 1850, five months before her death. Her correspondents'' names are familiar - Shelley himself, Byron, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, General Lafayette, Sir Walter Scott - and the letters abound with anecdotes about such eminent figures as her parents (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), Keats, Washington Irving, and Charles and Mary Lamb. Publication of the widely acclaimed three-volume edition of Mary Shelley''s letters was completed in 1988, containing all 1,276 of her known extant letters. Now Betty T. Bennett has selected 230 of those letters to give an overview of Mary Shelley''s life as she was seeing it, living it, and recording it. Bennett also includes an introductory essay that sketches a portrait of Mary Shelley, her world, and her place in the history of literature and letters.

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Originally published: London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. In 2 vols.

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. Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Frankenstein, a Swiss student at the university of Ingolstadt, is led by a peculiar enthusiasm to study the structure of the human frame, and to attempt to follow to its recondite sources the stream of animated being.'' In examining the causes of life, he informs us, antithetically, that he had first recourse to death. -- He became acquainted with anatomy; but that was not all; he traced through vaults and charnel houses the decay and corruption of the human body, and whilst engaged in this agreeable pursuit, examining and analyzing the minutiae of mortality, and the phenomena of the change from life to death and from death to life, a sudden light broke in upon him ...

Frankenstein was published in 1818, the work of a 21-year-old genius named Mary Shelley. Hundreds of movies, adaptations, and monster masks later, its reputation remains so lively that the title has become its own word in the English language. Victor Frankenstein, a scientist, discovers the secret of reanimating the dead. After he rejects his hideous creation, not even the farthest poles of the earth will keep his bitter monster from seeking an inhuman revenge. Inspired by a uniquely Romantic view of science’s possibilities, Shelley’s masterpiece ultimately wrestles with the hidden shadows of the human mind.

Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley''s second novel is sure to be a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel''s lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historicalfiction, attributes that can only delight the twentieth-century reader. Shelley''s mastery of the intricate details of thirteenth-century Tuscan politics is unique among women of her time, and her resolute filtering of the bloody heroics of the age through the sensibilities of two women who aredestroyed by them reveals the feminist perspective missing so conspicuously from her first novel. The latest addition to the acclaimed Women Writers in English series, this glittering novel from Romanticism''s premier woman storyteller belongs on the shelves of all serious readers of Englishfiction.