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The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity...
| Автор | William Beckford, Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". "The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck" is a historical novel about the life of Perkin Warbeck, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, the second son of King Edward IV. The book takes a point of view that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was Richard indeed. The book also contains the message that an...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Дебютный роман английской писательницы Мэри Шелли «Франкенштейн, или Современный Прометей» (1818) по праву считается шедевром романтической готики, который стал отправной точкой научно-фантастической традиции в прозе. Ученый Виктор Франкенштейн, дрейфующий на льдине и подобранный экспедиционным судном, рассказывает свою страшную историю исследователю Уолтону. Постигший тайну зарождения жизни и научившийся оживлять безжизненную материю, Франкенштейн создает искусственного человека из частей...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". This volume consists of two wonderful works: intriguing but tragic "The Evil Eye" and gothic "The Heir of Mondolfo".
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". The novel "Falkner" focuses on the character of Elizabeth Raby, raised under the influence of her foster-father Rupert Falkner. When he is acquitted of murdering her lover's mother, Elizabeth tries to do all she can to reconcile the two men she loves. The book's story and resolution propose the triumph of female...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction....
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
Scientist Victor Frankenstein, is determined to create intelligent life. He works night and day on his experiment until at last he succeeds. Only then does he realize that what he has created is a monster . . .
Oxford Children's Classics presents this timeless gothic tale in this stunning new edition which not only contains the complete and unabridged text but also lots of bonus features to help you get the most from the story and recommendations for other adventures readers might enjoy.
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, dramatist, and short story writer, universally known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". "Lodore" is the novel focused on the theme of power and responsibility for the family. The story follows the wife and daughter of Lord Lodore, who is killed in a duel at the end of the first volume, leaving a trail of legal, financial, and familial obstacles for the remaining family to solve.
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Patrick Nobes. Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new ‘man’. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him – even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill…
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Английский язык, Зарубежная образовательная литература |
A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity...
| Автор | Гораций Уолпол, William Beckford, Mary Shelley, Walpole Horace |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1982 |
These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man...
| Автор | Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft Mary |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The Last Man is Man' Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilization. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
'I looked at the huge body… Was it moving? No, yes!.. Yes, the man was breathing. He was alive!' Франкенштейн создает живое человекоподобное существо из неживой материи и оживляет его. Однако ожившее существо оказывается чудовищем. Frankenstein is an Elementary-level book written by Mary Shelley for the Macmillan Readers Series. This classic story is about the eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein who has a passion for studying old science theories and this leads to the creation of...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Год | 2005 |
Если вы изучаете английский язык или свободно на нем говорите, то у вас есть замечательная возможность на языке оригинала познакомиться с известным произведением Мэри Шелли. Текст адаптирован, сокращен и содержит перевод трудных для понимания слов и выражений. Рекомендуется учащимся школ, лицеев и колледжей, а также студентам лингвистических специальностей вузов. В формате PDF A4 сохранён издательский дизайн.
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Ужасы, Научная Фантастика, Английский язык, Классика фантастики |
| Год | 2006 |
Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, `Frankenstein` is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Жанр | Мистика Ужасы |
| Год | 2006 |
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
| Год | 2008 |