Frankenstein and Other Stories

Frankenstein and Other Stories brings together the collected fictional works of Mary Shelley into one expansive volume.


Shelley's Frankenstein, included here in the original unedited 1818 edition and the later re-edited 1831 version, is considered to be among the finest and most influential in the horror genre and helped give birth to science fiction.


Frankenstein and Other Stories shows the depth and breadth of Shelley's work, illustrating why her writing still resonates strongly to this day.

Included in Frankenstein and Other Stories are:


The Dream

The Evil Eye

Falkner

The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1831)

On Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus - a review by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Heir of Mondolfo

The Invisible Girl

The Last Man

Lodore

Midas

Mathilda

Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot

The Mortal Immortal

On Ghosts

Proserpine

Valperga

Bonus Non-Fiction Material:


History of a Six Weeks Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni

Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843

About Mary Shelley from Wikipedia:


"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née 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 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 Mary Wollstonecraft."

"Until the 1970s, Mary 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 Mary 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 (1829–46), support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised 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."