Gothic Horror Classics Collection - Shelley, Mary

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Résumé :
Seven Books In One! A new collection of Seven of the most popular and influential classic gothic tales or horror. Included in This volume are: Frankenstein By Mary Shelley Dracula By Bram Stoker The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson The Call of Cthulhu By H. P. Lovecraft The Castle of Otranto By Horace Walpole & Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Biographie:
Mary Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797-1851), was the daughter of philosopher and political writer William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (The Vindication of the Rights of Woman). Mary Shelley had a painful and turbulent life. Her mother died shortly after giving birth. Mary ran away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a married student of her father's, which resulted in alienation from her family and scandal. The couple traveled throughout Europe and lost their first child in 1815. Then, Mary's half-sister committed suicide, followed shortly thereafter by Percy's wife Harriett. This unfortunate circumstance allowed Percy and Mary to be wed in 1816. Percy Shelley drowned while sailing in 1822, leaving Mary as a young widow and mother. Mary Shelley is renowned for Frankenstein, but she also wrote additional novels, working to support her son and keeping her husband's legacy alive. She died of brain cancer in 1851....

Sommaire:
Seven Books In One! A new collection of Seven of the most popular and influential classic gothic tales or horror. Included in This volume are: Frankenstein By Mary Shelley Dracula By Bram Stoker The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson The Call of Cthulhu By H. P. Lovecraft The Castle of Otranto By Horace Walpole & Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne...