Gothic Tales
$28.08
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2027
Summary
Ten of Mary Shelley’s best short stories that push the boundaries of Gothic literature.
Mary Shelley is most known for Frankenstein, but in the years following the release of her magnum opus, which were beset by the loss of several children and her husband, she produced novels, poems, short stories, and other forms of writing to sustain herself and her only surviving child. Collected here from this tumultuous period of Shelley’s life are ten of her finest tales that, like
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143139041 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143139045 |
| Author: | Mary Shelley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, famous radical writers of the day. In 1814 she met and soon fell in love with the then-unknown Percy Bysshe Shelley. In December 1816, after Shelley’s first wife committed suicide, Mary and Percy married. They lived in Italy from 1818 until 1822, when Shelley drowned, whereupon Mary returned to London to live as a professional writer of novels, stories, and essays until her death in 1851.
Daniel Cook is a professor of English at the University of Dundee. He is the author of five books, including Gulliver’s Afterlives, Frankenstein Retold, and Walter Scott and Short Fiction. He has also edited or co-edited multiple essay collections and critical editions, such as Austen After 200, The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels, and The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Along with Sharon Ruston, he is a general editor of the forthcoming Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley.
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