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  • Beyond the Infinite
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / Ramsey Campbell
    Short, scary Sci-Fi stories. With reprinted archetypes from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, H.G. Wells, and HP Lovecraft, alongside new emerging and award-winning talents across the earth... and perhaps beyond! ...
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    27,90 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
       Frankenstein was written, said Shelley, to “curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’’   It succeeds in doing just that and stands as the classic of gothic horror novels, inspiring many screen and stage adaptations. But none has ever done proper justice to the novel’s powerful ethical and philosophical themes – scientific hubris, our narrow perception of beaut...
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    9,98 €

  • A Dark and Stormy Night
    Mary Shelley
    It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenge the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most i...
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    27,88 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is both a frightening gothic horror story and a science fiction masterpiece. Most people will be surprised to learn that Frankenstein is actually the very first example of science fiction ever written. As gothic horror it is a cautionary tale of the limits of man and science and reminds us of what happens when mankind moves forward with hubris as its...
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    28,03 €

  • The Last Man
    Mary Shelley
    Mary Shelley founded modern science fiction with her 1816 classic Frankenstein. A decade later, she inaugurated the subgenre of post-apocalyptic sf with the less-lauded and less-known The Last Man. Shelley used the found-manuscript trope for this book, claiming to have discovered a series of seemingly connected stories on various pages in the Cumaean Sibyl’s Cave, and stitched ...
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    23,33 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Victor Frankenstein is just a college student who wants to figure out the technical details of how life works. Obsessed with chasing this discovery, he creates something unthinkable. And then things all go wrong.Read a Gothic horror classic easily with this modern English translation. But don't worry about missing anything, because the original unedited 1831 version is here...
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    12,66 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary W. Shelley
    Mary W. Shelley. Novelista, narradora, dramaturga, ensayista, filósofa y biógrafa británica. Poseía una gran tenacidad intelectual y una avanzada educación.La novela de Frankenstein narra la historia de Víctor Frankenstein, quien vivía feliz en Suiza, pero cuando su madre murió él prometió ser un gran médico y vencer a la muerte.En el laboratorio de su casa, en Inglaterra, armó...
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    4,96 €

  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the world’s most famous Gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein’s monster being a symbol of science gone awry.  Shelley’s masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books.  This, the 1818 edition, published anonymously, contains the author’s original vision.  Later revisions, though edited by Mary Shelle...
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    8,30 €

  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the world’s most famous Gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein’s monster being a symbol of science gone awry.  Shelley’s masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books.  This, the 1818 edition, published anonymously, contains the author’s original vision.  Later revisions, though edited by Mary Shelle...
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    20,33 €

  • Frankenstein (World Classics, Unabridged)
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking classic—begun as a ghost story for friends—is a potent blend of science fiction and horror that has inspired countless movie and other adaptations. Nothing, however, equals the depth and beauty of Shelley’s original, which emains as relevant as ever. In his arrogance, Dr. Victor Frankenstein dreams of discovering the very secret of life…and he succ...
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    8,42 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley
    This is the original 1818 text of Frankenstein. In 1831, the more popular edition of Frankenstein appeared. In this later version, the story was heavily revised by Mary Shelley who was under pressure to make the book more conservative. The 1831 edition tends to be the one most widely read now but many scholars prefer the 1818 text, arguing that it preserves the spirit of Shelle...
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    16,52 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley
    This is the original 1818 text of Frankenstein. In 1831, the more popular edition of Frankenstein appeared. In this later version, the story was heavily revised by Mary Shelley who was under pressure to make the book more conservative. The 1831 edition tends to be the one most widely read now but many scholars prefer the 1818 text, arguing that it preserves the spirit of Shelle...
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    33,27 €

  • Frankenstein - The Modern Prometheus
    Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley
    As a young boy, Victor is obsessed with studying outdated theories of science that focus on achieving natural wonders. When he witnesses lightning strike an oak tree, splitting it in two, he is inspired to harness the power of lightning. His mother dies of scarlet fever weeks before he leaves for the University of Ingolstadt in Germany. At university, he excels at chemistry and...
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    18,62 €

  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    Mary Shelley
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the world’s most famous gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein’s monster being a symbol of science gone awry.  Shelley’s masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books.  This, the 1831 edition, contains the author’s final revisions. ...
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    18,37 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary W. Shelley
    El ser monstruoso creado artificialmente por el doctor Viktor Frankenstein no tiene nombre. Mary Shelley lo llama generalmente criatura y pocas veces monstruo, negándose a bautizar al engendro. Fue el cine quien culminó la transferencia del nombre del creador a la criatura y por comodidad le ha sido dado a lo innombrable el apellido de quien lo inventó. Frankenstein o el modern...
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    7,71 €

  • Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is the world’s most famous Gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein’s monster being a symbol of science gone awry.  Shelley’s masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books.  This, the 1831 edition, contains the author’s final revisions. ...
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    8,28 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    When Doctor Frankenstein builds a monster in the name of science, he never expects to have to leave the creature and return later to find it killed his brother. The monster eventually tracks him down so that Victor Frankenstein can build the monster a female companion so that he can exercise his right for happiness. ...
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    21,29 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is an 1818 science fiction romance by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, a young student, animates a soulless monster made out of corpses from churchyards and dissecting rooms by means of galvanism. Longing for sympathy and shunned by everyone, the creature ultimately turns to evil and brings dreadful retribution on the student for usurping God’s...
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    22,46 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is an 1818 science fiction romance by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, a young student, animates a soulless monster made out of corpses from churchyards and dissecting rooms by means of galvanism. Longing for sympathy and shunned by everyone, the creature ultimately turns to evil and brings dreadful retribution on the student for usurping God’s...
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    34,52 €

  • Frankenstein and the Critics
    Mary Shelley / Percy Bysshe Shelley / Walter Scott
    With like many great works of art, ’Frankenstein’ was initially misunderstood. The first reviews were decidedly mixed. An anonymous review in The Literary Panorama and National Register published June 1 1818 dismissed Shelley’s work as ’a feeble imitation of one that was very popular in its day.’ Other periodicals were kinder. Writing in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine on 20 Mar...
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    36,71 €

  • Frankenstein (Qualitas Classics)
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    Frankenstein (also titled The Modern Prometheus but now generally referred to as Frankenstein), was written by Mary Shelley and first published anonymously in 1818. The title makes reference to one of the novel’s main characters, a scientist named Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life. The monster itself has mistakenly been referred to as 'Frankenstein', after its ...
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    14,01 €

  • Frankenstein (Canon Classics Worldview Edition)
    Mary Shelley
    'Frankenstein impresses us with a high idea of the author’s original genius and happy power of expression.' ~Sir Walter Scott'Frankenstein, the genesis of the horror genre, began with friends gathered around a campfire telling ghost stories. For a modern generation raised on Goosebumps it’s a little too good to be true.' ~From Jake McAtee’s IntroductionDr. Frankenstein appears ...
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    14,41 €

  • FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (The Revised 1831 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    This is the Revised 1831 Edition of FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS, a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was ...
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    9,41 €

  • FRANKENSTEIN or The Modern Prometheus (Uncensored 1818 Edition - Wisehouse Classics)
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    This is the Uncensored 1818 Edition FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS, a novel written by the English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young science student Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was ...
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    9,63 €

  • Frankenstein - Original 1818 Uncensored Version
    Mary Shelley
    This is the original, 1818 text of Frankenstein. In 1831, the more traditionally first 'popular' edition in one volume appeared.This version of the story was heavily revised by Mary Shelley who was under pressure to make the story more conservative, and included a new, longer preface by her, presenting a somewhat embellished version of the genesis of the story. This edition ten...
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    33,21 €

  • Frankenstein (with an Introduction by Sir Walter Scott)
    Mary Shelley
    Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who through a strangely unorthodox experiment creates a grotesque yet sentient being. Victor, repulsed by the thing that he has created, abandons the monster. The creature in turn saddened by this rejection, departs as well. What follows is a series of tragic events. There is no greater novel i...
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    11,10 €

  • The Last Man
    Mary Shelley
    The Last ManMary Shelley, most famous for 'Frankenstein' also wrote several other novels and short stories. 'The Last Man' was her second best-seller, written about ten years after the publication of 'Frankenstein'.The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel about tragic love and a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. It reflects Shelley’s fears about civili...
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    52,09 €

  • Middle Unearthed
    Charles Dickens / Mary Shelley
    Before there was a lovable green ogre called Shrek and a bespeckled wizard named Harry Potter, there were the best fantasy short stories published in English during the first half of the nineteenth century.These 10 excellent stories were uncovered by awarding-winning editor Andrew Barger from old magazines and forgotten journals. Andrew provides a list, at the back of the colle...
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    16,04 €

  • The Last Man
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel about tragic love and a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. It reflects Shelley’s fears about civilization and the shortcomings of human behavior. Lionel Verney, the narrator and last survivor of a twenty-first century plague, recounts how he discovers a manuscript written in 2100. 3 ...
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    25,99 €

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley
    Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it caught the public imagination almost immediately. The first stage adaptation was written in 1823, and since then countless film versions, parodies, and modern interpretations have changed the associations we have with the Frankenstein name. Shelley’s novel offers many pleasures, but fulfilling the horror-movie expectations of the ...
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    17,69 €


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