Shelley: 1827 books

Mary Shelley ( Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of...

Get ready for the new Showtime horror series ‘Penny Dreadful’ coming this May with Volume 4 of the Penny Dreadful Multipacks! Included in this bundle: ‘Frankenstein’ (1818 Version) by Mary Shelley ‘The String of Pearls’ (Sweeney Todd) by James Malcolm Rymer ‘The Lady or...

A brave, heartrending memoir of family, love and longing in the turbulent era of Apartheid in South Africa. During the terrifying years of Apartheid in South Africa, Shelley Davidow's family was a crime. At a time when it was illegal for black and white people to live together, Shelley's social activist...

Just expressing an atheist opinion out loud was enough to set the wheels of British justice in motion in the 19th century. But Shelley went beyond that, arguing that atheism was a necessary position — the only one that could be reasonably held. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was never one to hold...

The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: On the Devil, and Devils is an essay by Shelley on the nature of the Devil.

Coming of age in the Age of Aquarius.   Author Shelley Gill was seventeen-years-old in 1972 and a free spirit protesting the Vietnam War, marching for civil rights, and finding her way in a changing world. While volunteering in the medical tent at the first Rainbow Gathering in Granby, Colorado,...

Shelley Hunter Hillesheim helps you construct Team YOU--your very own support system and personal well-being team.Through Self-Care Dares and exercises, Shelley leads you to identify what you need and how to take inspired action steps to "put your own oxygen mask on first." You will intentionally...

An inspiring, no-holds-barred account of one woman's quest to find her true self.Shelley Bridgman is an award-winning stand-up comic, actor, script writer, professional speaker and a leading Psychotherapist - but it wasn't always this way.First she survived the hedonistic sixties with the inevitable...

This book contains Percy Byssche Shelley's 'Epipsychidion', a seminal poetic work published by the prolific English romantic poet in 1821. The main theme of this piece is that of a meditation on the nature of ideal love, which Shelley believed was intrinsic in the idea of free love and diametrically...

Mary Shelley (1797-1851), mulher do poeta inglês Percy B. Shelley, escreveu Frankenstein para participar de um concurso de histórias de terror realizado na intimidade do castelo de Lord Byron. Mesmo competindo com grandes gênios da literatura universal, acabou redigindo esta que é uma das mais...

An outstanding collection by Shelley - the Romantic poet who penned more than a thousand pages of poetry in his entire life. He lives today through these works which enjoy enduring popularity. You will also feel the presence of his wife Mary Shelley who not only put together this anthology but also added her own notes thus adding further flavour to the book. Delightful!

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...

Frankenstein è un romanzo straordinario sotto molti punti di vista. Pubblicato per la prima volta senza il nome dell’autore, fu scritto da una giovane donna di 19 anni. Da molti è considerato come l’ultimo vero romanzo gotico, da tutti come uno dei primi romanzi di fantascienza. La vicenda...

Poche creature di orrore hanno catturato l'immaginazione dei lettori e le hanno tenute per tanto tempo come il mostro angosciato di Frankenstein di Mary Shelley. La storia della terribile creazione di Victor Frankenstein e lo scempio che ha causato ha affascinato generazioni di lettori e ispirato...