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Mary W. Shelley (1797-1851) wurde beim Erscheinen ihres Erstlingsromans "Frankenstein" (1818) schlagartig berühmt und international bekannt. Hier sind vier ihrer kürzeren Stücke versammelt, romantische Erzählungen, in deren Mittelpunkt verschiedene Frauenschicksale der damaligen Zeit stehen: mal herzzerreißend als Geschichte von Entsagung und unverhofftem Glück; mal zynisch als Bericht einer Brautschau hinter Klostermauern; mal melancholisch als tragische Geschichte eines gescheiterten gesellschaftlichen Aufstiegs.Das unsichtbare MädchenEine Braut im modernen ItalienDie AufsteigerinDie Pilger

Mary Shelley's classic tale about a scientist's hubris and the pitiable creature who did not ask to be brought to life is adapted into a breathtaking graphic novel illustrated by the renowned artist Georges Bess. Faithfully adapting the original novel, citing text directly from Shelly's novel, Frankenstein by George Bess, is filled with page after page of stunning pen-and-ink drawings. Readers will find themselves lost in this classic story, content to soak in every detail before entering the next page. Reproducing Georges's unprocessed illustration boards on uncoated woodfree paper, these artist-edition books will capture the tactile details of his work as if holding the originals.

En 1818, lors d'un jeu entre amis au cours duquel chacun devait écrire une histoire d'épouvante, Mary Shelley écrit le roman qui par son succès occulte ses autres ¿uvres, Frankenstein. Si l'imagerie populaire est surtout marquée par les nombreuses adaptations du roman, notamment cinématographique, ces dernières sont pourtant très éloignées de l'¿uvre originale. Pourtant, ce chef d'¿uvre de la littérature gothique, reste encore aujourd'hui, une fascinante histoire horrifique et philosophique, également considérée comme l'un des premiers romans de science-fiction.À propos de cette édition,Ce célèbre roman de Mary Shelley vous est présenté dans sa première version de 1818 et non dans celle de 1831, révisée par son autrice. Cette version de 1818 est jugée par la critique contemporaine comme une plus juste représentation de l'état d'esprit de Mary Shelley à l'époque de l'écriture.Pour cette édition bilingue, les textes originaux et leurs traductions ont été alignés, de sorte que les paragraphes correspondants apparaissent côte à côte. Des sauts de lignes peuvent décaler le début d'un paragraphe afin de maintenir au mieux une correspondance de contenus entre les pages en langue originale et en français.Bonne lecture,

Dr. Victor Frankenstein never considers the consequences of his obsession. In his zeal to understand and harness the secret of life, he neglects his family and friends, isolates himself from the world, and ignores his own health. For years, he labors to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scrounging human and animal body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, learning from his mistakes and perfecting the creature who, he believes, will worship him as a god. But this hubris is not his only sin. When he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life. Rather than exult in his accomplishment, he runs from it, retreating to the comfort of long-neglected friends and family. Frankenstein has, indeed, created a monster. Not by reanimating dead flesh but by abandoning his creation and planting within it the seeds of rage and loneliness. Now, the monster is out for revenge.

"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel..." "There was none among the myriads of men who existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Frankenstein (1818) is a brilliant story curated by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley of a scientist named Victor Frankenstein and his obsession with creating life. He darns various body parts to create a creature and infuses life into it. The first sight of his creation horrifies Frankenstein. Terrified of the 'monster' he has created, Frankenstein wishes him away. But the tale takes an interesting turn when the monster starts having desires of his own and refuses to live in this world alone.

A deluxe collector's edition of one of the world's most iconic horror novels, featuring 24 full-page illustrations by award - winning artist John Coulthart, coloured fore-edges and a printed slipcase. A work of art in the form of a book.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821. Though Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement, Brian Aldiss has argued for regarding it as the first true science-fiction story. In contrast to previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, Aldiss states, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. The novel has had a considerable influence on literature and on popular culture; it has spawned a complete genre of horror stories, films, and plays.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin) (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.Shelley''s mother died less than a month after giving birth to her. She was raised by her father, who provided her with a rich if informal education, encouraging her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four, her father married a neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Shelley came to have a troubled relationship.In 1814, Shelley began a romance with one of her father''s political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and travelled through Europe. Upon their return to England, Shelley was pregnant with Percy''s child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley''s first wife, Harriet.In 1816, the couple and her stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumor which killed her at age 53.Until the 1970s, Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish her husband''s works and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Shelley''s achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826) and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works, such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner''s Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829-1846), support the growing view that Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Shelley''s works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practiced by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin.

"Readers will be mesmerized by the giant 3-D pop-ups in this graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel. When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create a new being from dead corpses, he has little knowledge of the horrors that await--or of the anguish that his actions will wreak on his own creation. Illustrator Anthony Williams's full-color scenes capture the grim atmosphere of Shelley's novel in detail so that a new generation of readers can enjoy this horror classic."--Provided by publisher.

One of the first dystopian novels ever written, The Last Man traces the impact of an unstoppable pandemic as it slowly overtakes the world. Beginning in the year 2073, the story follows Lionel Vesey--the titular last man--and his circle of friends as the disease creeps from continent to continent and erodes the foundations of civilization. Published in 1826, after the death of Shelley's husband, her stepsister, and her two children, The Last Man is both an eerily accurate story about humanity wrestling with disaster and a moving fable about surviving personal grief.

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Victor Frankenstein's attempts to create life from the dead leads to the creation of a monster capable of thought, subject to emotion, and seeking revenge. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley , is a work of unique power, a cornerstone of the horror genre, the founding novel of the science fiction genre and an engrossing novel of ideas.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley.Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington.A rich selection of contextual documents-twenty-six in all-pertaining to The Last Man's background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other "Last Man" texts.Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments on the novel's major themes.A chronology of Mary Shelley's life and work and a selected bibliography

Victor Frankenstein constructs a man out of old body parts and brings him to life. The newborn monster disappears from Frankenstein's laboratory and enters the world as an outcast, struggling with his own identity.