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The original 1818 text of Mary Shelley's classic novel, with annotations and essays highlighting its scientific, ethical, and cautionary aspects. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this poignant novel of longing and salvation, a hopeful widow and a resilient war hero discover the promise of love’s magic and new beginnings.** ** ** After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and spirit in...

THE EVIL EYE AND OTHER STORIES features six short stories by Gothic horror writer Mary Shelley, author of FRANKENSTEIN.  These stories all include a strongly supernatural theme, and are guaranteed to delight.  Includes an active table of contents. • The Evil Eye • The Mortal Immortal • On Ghosts • The Invisible Girl • The Dream • The Heir of Mondolfo

Mary Shelley ( Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of...

Get ready for the new Showtime horror series ‘Penny Dreadful’ coming this May with Volume 4 of the Penny Dreadful Multipacks! Included in this bundle: ‘Frankenstein’ (1818 Version) by Mary Shelley ‘The String of Pearls’ (Sweeney Todd) by James Malcolm Rymer ‘The Lady or...

July 16, 1833.--This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew?--certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed over his head. In comparison with him, I am a very young Immortal. Am I, then, immortal? This is a question which...

"The Infidel" is a work by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published for the first time in 1900."The Infidel"  is one of Braddon*'s* novels in the sensation literature genre."The Infidel" is an atypical novel, as regards the literary collection of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The...

16 Complete Works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon   Birds of Prey Charlotte's Inheritance Fenton's Quest Henry Dunbar John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes I-III Lady Audley's Secret London Pride Milly Darrell and Other Tales Phantom Fortune Run to Earth The Doctor's Wife The Golden Calf The Lovels of Arden Vixen, Volume I Vixen, Volume II Vixen, Volume III  

In this concise book, Mary Baker Eddy establishes the foundation, government, services, and activities of her Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and provides the guidelines for self-government of individual church members.  In referring to the Manual, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Of...

“[Clark] deftly combines the clue-searching and puzzle-solving fun of mysteries with the action-packed, emotion-driven narrative thrust of thrillers.” —Pittsburgh Tribune Review   “One of Clark’s—and the genre’s—best.” —Associated Press   A...

In the second volume of the definitive edition of her fiction, three novels by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation, including the landmark classic The Group. In Mary McCarthy's most famous novel, The Group (1963), she depicts the lives of eight Vassar College graduates...

* This novella is also available in the author's Christmas novella collection, Christmas Revels. * A Holiday Fling was also previously released under a different title: A Christmas Fling. British actress Jenny Lyme is having a pretty decent career. Though she may not have become an international...

“There are few contemporary authors whose work can absorb readers so fully and with such immediacy that the line between character and reader begins to seem dangerously thin. Among these few is the brilliant Mary McGarry Morris.” –Los Angeles Times Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed...

**"Thrilling and illuminating."—LA Times "A hypnotic psychological thriller." —People A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this new gripping and complex psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl and the...