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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 .
"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.
The film's plot description in a 1910 issue of the studio's trade periodical Edison Kinetogram provides considerable detail about the company's screen adaptation: [7] Frankenstein, a young student, is seen bidding his sweetheart and father goodbye, as he is leaving home to enter a college in order to study the sciences.
Mary Shelley painted by Richard Rothwell (1839–40). Mary Shelley wrote "Maurice" for Laurette Tighe on 10 August 1820. [8] Shelley's journal for that day notes: "Thursday 10—Write a story for Laurette—Walk on the mountain—Le Buche delle Fate [fairy grottoes or caves]—The weather is warm & delightful". [9]
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 ...
It employs the technique of the explained supernatural characteristic of Ann Radcliffe. Like several other works by Shelley, including Frankenstein, "The Invisible Girl" employs a frame narrative. In terms of form, "The Invisible Girl" is a variation on the Gothic fragment, exemplified by Anna Letitia Aiken's "Sir Bertrand: A Fragment" (1773).
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.