MARY W. SHELLEY

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A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failu...

Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines t...

Dieciocho años tenía Mary Shelley cuando escribió las primeras líneas de Frankestein, una obra cuya popularidad, debida en parte al cine y al teatro, ha hecho disminuir notablemente el número de lectores, que no se deciden a leerla por considerarla harto conocida. Y sin embargo Frankestein es mucho más que la historia de un doctor un poco raro q...