Böcker av Mary Shelley

Den unge Victor Frankenstein åker till universitetet i Ingolstadt för att studera. Han fastnar för naturvetenskaperna och framför allt för kemin. En sak intresserar honom särskilt mycket - kroppens uppbyggnad och varifrån livets principer utgår. F...

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Mary Shelleys legendariska roman Frankenstein, i nyöversättning av Måns Winberg. Alla har vi stött på - om inte annat i filmparodier - varianter av historien om den galne vetenskapsmannen och hans ohyggliga skapelse, en varelse konstruerad av mäns...

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Det här är en ask fylld med berättelser om kärlek: Om stark förälskelse och om brustna hjärtan. Om fåfänga och ondska, omtanke och besvikelse. Fyra noveller skrivna av några av våra mest älskade författare genom tiderna. Asken innehåller fyra böck...

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Denna apokalyptiska roman utspelar sig i ett framtida Europa i förändring. Med utgångspunkt i det idylliska Ullswater i norra England får vi följa mänsklighetens slutliga kollaps och undergång på nära håll. Den sista människan är, vid sidan av Fra...

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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 fo...

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Mary Shelleys legendariska roman Frankenstein, i nyöversättning av Måns Winberg och med efterord av John-Henri Holmberg. Alla har vi stött på - om inte annat i filmparodier - varianter av historien om den galne vetenskapsmannen och hans ohyggliga ...

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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. 'Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness'. A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Sh...

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Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would `curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.' The tale is a sup...

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Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley's finest work. This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring g...

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A beautiful new hardback edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the book's first publication INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER Navigating the Arctic, the captain...

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Victor Frankenstein en mycket välbärgad, aspirerande vetenskapsman hittar en hemlig teknik som gör det möjligt att återuppliva död vävnad. Men vad kommer Victor i själva verket att skapa med sin nya kunskap? Kommer resultatet verkligen bli den und...

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Den unge Victor Frankenstein är besatt av tanken att skapa liv genom vetenskap och teknologi. Men i samma stund som han gör sitt stora genombrott förvandlas hans dröm om ära och berömmelse till en grotesk mardröm, där hela hans familj hamnar i far...

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Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literturethe power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the eff...

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Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with B...

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Mary Shelleys legendariska roman Frankenstein, i nyöversättning av Måns Winberg och med efterord av John-Henri Holmberg. Alla har vi stött på - om inte annat i filmparodier - varianter av historien om den galne vetenskapsmannen och hans ohyggliga ...

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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 Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-fi...

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Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture-the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the ef...

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Committed to the deadly pursuit of the monster he created, Victor Frankenstein tells his chilling story. It all began with a desire to help mankind, but where will it end? Frankenstein leads us through vast mountainous landscapes and over frozen s...

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Swiss medical student Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of life (which he never reveals, lest someone repeat the mistake). He then puts together a body, essentially a man, from various corpses. He then becomes horrified by the creature he h...

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Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life,...

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Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of impart...

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Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous ...

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Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit a...

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A spine-tingling collection of terrifying classics with an introduction by horror master Stephen King. The mesmerizing story of a demented scientist's monster creation; the horror masterpiece that has led to countless vampire novels and films; and...

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Obsessed by creating life itself, Frankenstein plunders graveyards for material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life using electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to des...

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Mary Shelley, whose Frankenstein is the foundation of modern SF, fantasy and horror fiction, was born to the writer William Godwin and social campaigner Mary Wollstonecraft. This new, special collection brings together extracts of her novels and s...

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`The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ...

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The chilling and tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creature he brings to life, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, remains one of the most widely read Gothic novels of our time. Celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018, Frankenstein i...

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"Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge", writes Leslie S. Klinger. Mary Shelley's Frankens...

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