Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Born
in Somers Town, London, England
August 30, 1797
Died
February 01, 1851
Genre
Influences
Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Milton
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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· 1,645 distinct works
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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1818
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The Last Man
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1826
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Mathilda
658 editions
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1959
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Frankenstein / Dracula / Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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1978
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The Mortal Immortal: The Complete Supernatural Short Fiction of Mary Shelley
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1831
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Transformation
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Mary Shelley: Gothic Tales
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Frankestein: (Vintage Edition) (Bestsellers: Classic Books)
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Frankenstein: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting
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Kärleksprövningen
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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
Polls
October 2014 Revisit the Shelf Poll
1818, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 273 pages
1860, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages
1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 180 pages
1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 227 pages
1847, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 507 pages
1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 355 pages
1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages
1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages
1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker, 488 pages
1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages
1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages
1876, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 231 pages
1851, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages
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