New Releases by Mary Wollstonecraft

In 1795 Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, travelled for several months in the Scandinavian countries. Her account of this trip, published in 1796, has a dual interest and importance: as a picture of countries rarely visited in Regency times, and as an essential link in Mary''s personal progress. Her scenic descriptions and political comments about Norway (then under the Danes), her encounters with an impoverished peasantry and with Danish townsfolk greedily obsessed by commerce, are no less vivid than are the outbursts of melancholy in these letters written to Gilbert Imlay the unfaithful lover, and father of her baby girl. The reading of this book attracted William Godwin to its author, who was soon to become his wife and the mother of Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein. It is a key work for the understanding of the Godwin-Shelley circle. On publication, the book proved an immediate success. Widely read in England and America and translated into German, Dutch and Portuguese, it could well have made her as a popular writer, had she not died in the following year. Travels in Italy, Switzerland and Germany were becoming fashionable since the d

This is the only single-volume edition containing all Wollstonecraft''s known correspondence.

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.

Frankenstein was Mary Shelley''s immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron devised one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences. Frankenstein confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism: topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and mankind''s status as a species of animal. The text used here is from the 1818 edition, which is a mocking expose'' of leaders and achievers who leave desolation in their wake, showing humanity its choice - to live co-operatively or to die of selfishness. Drawing on new research, Marilyn Butler examines the novel in the context of the radical sciences, which were developing among much controversy, and shows how Frankenstein''s experiment relates to a contemporary debate between the champions of materialist science and of received religion.

The definitive, annotated edition of Mary Shelley''s classic novel.

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

Mary Shelley''s classic on man''s blasphemous attempt to create life is accompanied by commentary on the author and the stylistic, thematic, and mythic aspects of the novel.

A spine-tingling collection of terrifying classics with an introduction by horror master Stephen King. The mesmerizing story of a demented scientist''s monster creation; the horror masterpiece that has led to countless vampire novels and films; and the ultimate tale of the never-ending battle between good and evil--these frightening works continue to entrall even the boldest readers. Reissue.

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 ...