Shelley: 1827 books

An English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Contents Falkner The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Transformation The Dream On Ghosts

Lydia’s job at the library is her world—until a mysterious patron catches her eye . . . and perhaps her heart. Just months after the closure of the Chicago World’s Fair, librarian Lydia Bancroft finds herself fascinated by a mysterious dark-haired and dark-eyed patron. He has never given...

After the War Between the States, a Confederate officer longs to heal the heart of a beautiful woman—but first he’ll have to right the wrongs that were done to her. Major Ethan Kelly has never been able to absolve himself of the guilt he feels for raiding a woman’s home shortly before...

Seven years ago Russell Champion was betrayed by the two most important women in his life. Now Russell returns home, but is it too late to make amends with his mother and find closure with his true love?

Texas, 1874. Years ago, Will McMillan had fought in the open, next to his Captain, Clayton Proffitt. Now he's waging another war undercover, pretending to be a member of the notorious Walton Gang. But when a hostage situation goes awry and an innocent woman is in the middle of the fray, Will knows...

Frankenstein est un roman original à plus d’un titre. Sa première version, publiée sans nom d’auteur, a été écrite par une jeune femme de 19 ans. Le livre est considéré, en outre, comme le dernier roman gothique et comme l’un des tout premiers romans de science-fiction. Il raconte l’histoire...

Par l’auteur du célèbre Frankenstein, Mathilda est un roman mélancolique, romantique, et indéniablement d’inspiration autobiographique. La mère de Mathilda meurt peu de temps après sa naissance, et son père, ne pouvant supporter son chagrin, abandonne l’enfant à une tante et s’enfuit....

Obsédé par la découverte de la cause de la génération et de la vie et par l’animation d’une matière sans vie, Frankenstein assemble un être humain à partir de parties volées de son corps. Après l'avoir rendu vivant, il recule d'horreur. Tourmentée par l'isolement et la solitude,...

Falkner charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure.

Mistakes are easy. It’s fixing them that can make or break a marriage. Caroline Rutherford is at the end of her marriage tether. As much as she loves her husband, it’s time to admit defeat. Their long-term, love-at-first-sight relationship is no longer working, and they’re hurting each...

Lion shifter Leticia Huntingdon has FIV, the feline version of AIDS. For months she’s been in remission, treated by Gavin Finley, the Middlemarch feline doctor. Now the disease has returned. Her feelings for Gavin can’t go anywhere because of the FIV, so it shouldn’t hurt when Gavin turns to...

Plan A sucks. Move over for plan B… Sports commentator and reporter, Megan Saxon, has it all. The perfect career and freedom to do anything she wants, but as the years creep by she realizes love, or at least male companionship, has thumbed its nose at her. With the help of her agent-friend,...

Saber and Emily Mitchell have been mates for years and happy until the tragic loss of their baby changes everything. Feline shapeshifter, Saber is having a tough week with family and community problems. Worse, his beloved Emily has shut him out and is wallowing in depression. They inhabit the...

Man wanted: confident and charismatic, a virtuoso in bed and capable of supporting a woman in her quest for freedom. Shifter Kiera Pascoe is desperate to foil her brothers’ plan to ship her back to England. She needs help, and hunky Joe Mitchell is the perfect applicant. Joe is missing...