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Mary Shelley (working title A Storm in the Stars) is a 2017 romantic period-drama film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and written by Emma Jensen. The plot follows Mary Shelley's first love and her romantic relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, which inspired her to write her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. 1818 novel by Mary Shelley This article is about the novel by Mary Shelley. For the Monster, see Frankenstein's monster. For other uses, see Frankenstein (disambiguation). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Volume I, first edition Author Mary Shelley Language English Genre Gothic ...
"The Evil Eye" is a piece of short fiction written by Mary Shelley and published in The Keepsake for 1830. The tale is set in Greece and is about a man known as Dmitri of the Evil Eye. Dmitri's wife was murdered and his daughter abducted many years before the story begins.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein premiered at the London Film Festival, and was released theatrically on November 4, 1994, by TriStar Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $112 million worldwide on a budget of $45 million, making it less successful than the previous Francis Ford Coppola -produced horror adaptation, Bram ...
The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television period crime drama series that first aired on ITV Encore on 11 November 2015, [1] designed as a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Lead actor Sean Bean also acted as an associate producer on the first series. It follows Inspector John Marlott ...
The Invisible Girl is a Gothic tale written by Mary Shelley and first published in The Keepsake for 1833. The tale is set in Wales, and tells the story of a young woman named Rosina, who lives with her guardian, Sir Peter Vernon, and is secretly engaged to his son, Henry.
In 1816, authors Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Mary Shelley (née Godwin) get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Byron's doctor, John William Polidori , spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva .
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826.The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity.