{"title":"Mary Shelley","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Shelley — \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e and other works from the mother of science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"frankenstein-thrift-study-edition","title":"Frankenstein Thrift Study Edition","description":"Obsessed with creating life in a laboratory, a medical student haunts graveyards and dissecting rooms in search of the materials for his experiments. But when he achieves success, he rejects his ghastly creation. The creature — longing for love but shunned by all — turns evil and exacts revenge. Two centuries after its initial publication, Frankenstein endures as a synonym for \"monster.\" The first modern horror novel as well as the first science-fiction novel, Mary Shelley's Gothic romance has intrigued generations of readers. A definitive survey, this Dover Thrift Study Edition offers the novel's complete and unabridged text, plus a comprehensive study guide. Created to help readers gain a thorough understanding of Frankenstein's content and context, the guide includes: • Chapter-by-chapter summaries • Explanations and discussions of the plot • Question-and-answer sections • Shelley biography • List of characters and more Dover Thrift Study Editions feature everything that students need to undertake a confident reading of a classic text, as well as to prepare themselves for class discussions, essays, and exams.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458465591393,"sku":"9780486115504","price":1.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_27182073-d033-4bf0-a579-6f935b27389a.jpg?v=1778567944"},{"product_id":"frankenstein-4","title":"Frankenstein","description":"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 suspense. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's. \"We will each write a story,\" Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal. The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, \"would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror — one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44459483988065,"sku":"9780486784755","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_25bdcfa5-1ed7-4cb7-a5c0-caf8d083e3ef.jpg?v=1778569223"},{"product_id":"mary-shelley-the-dover-reader","title":"Mary Shelley The Dover Reader","description":"The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley (1797–1851) created a remarkable body of work that includes novels, short stories, essays, plays, biographies, and travel books. For many years, she was remembered solely as the author of Frankenstein and the wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; today her reputation has risen to that of a major figure in the world of Romantic literature. This treasury offers the best of Mary Shelley's writings, starting with the complete text of her masterpiece, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, as well as the melancholy novella Mathilda and a significant excerpt from the apocalyptic classic The Last Man. In addition to the essay \"On Ghosts,\" the collection includes a selection of short stories: \"Transformation,\" \"The Dream,\" \"The Mortal Immortal,\" \"The False Rhyme,\" and \"Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44459787157601,"sku":"9780486809229","price":2.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_58f7e93b-65b4-40a1-b5ed-2dfabfc9e1a9.jpg?v=1778569618"},{"product_id":"the-last-man-1","title":"The Last Man","description":"From the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 roman à clef takes place in the late 21st century, as England's last king abdicates and a charmed circle of idealistic political reformers plunges into a maelstrom of war, pestilence, and anarchy. Shelley wrote this gripping novel after the untimely deaths of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their comrade, Lord Byron. She modeled a pair of characters on the charismatic poets and based the narrator — the sole survivor of a pandemic — on her own persona. This parable of humanity's destruction by plague is widely regarded as a repudiation of Romanticism and its failure to solve the world's problems through art and philosophy. It reflects the ways utopian ideals, unchecked by moral and ethical standards, can shatter society. Misunderstood by19th-century readers, Shelley's visionary novel disappeared for over a century, only to reemerge to critical acclaim as a precursor of science fiction and a forerunner of modern apocalyptic tales. Novelist Muriel Spark hailed it as the harbinger of \"an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel,\" and pronounced it Shelley's \"most interesting, if not her consummate work.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44460365152353,"sku":"9780486843827","price":3.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_8d70064a-9b5f-4119-9a24-48b38c7d438c.jpg?v=1778570336"}],"url":"https:\/\/ebooks.aafaqeducation.com\/collections\/mary-shelley.oembed","provider":"ebook.aafaqeducation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}