検索キーワード： "Mary Shelley" 選集・短編小説

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A reanimated Roman soldier, Valerius, finds himself in a ruined world centuries after his time. Unable to connect with modern society, he retreats into isolation until he meets Isabell, who tries to show him the beauty of the rebuilt Rome. Despite her...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Mary Shelley's "Transformation," Guido's encounter with a misshapen creature leads to a body swap gone wrong. Trapped in a monstrous form, he must fight impostors and face his own doppelgänger to reclaim his life and love. This gripping Gothic tale...

LA TRANSFORMACIÓN 1831. Es un relato de terror gótico con algunos matices arrancados del folclore y de las leyendas populares. Su motivo principal es el pacto entre Guido Il Cortese y una criatura sobrenatural (una especie de enano o demonio menor), que consiste en el intercambio de cuerpos, cuestión que Marlowe también tocó en su Fausto. 2 – EL SUEÑO: UN CUENTO 1832. Uno de los mejores relatos de terror de Mary Shelley, donde a través de una historia sin fisuras, pone en evidencia la exquisita sutileza de la autora. 3 – LA PRUEBA DE AMOR 1834.

Sci-Fi: The Definitive Collection is a collection of 29 classic science fiction novels and stories, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the most iconic science fiction writers of all time, including H.G. Wells; Jules Verne; H.P. Lovecraft; Maragret Cavendish; Yevgeny Zamyatin; and more.

Durante su vida, Mary Shelley fue tomada en serio como escritora. A su muerte, sin embargo, fue principalmente recordada como la esposa de Percy Bysshe Shelley y autora de una solo obra: Frankenstein. En décadas recientes, la reedición de casi todas sus obras ha ocasionado un mayor reconocimiento de su valor, reconociéndola como una de las principales figuras del romanticismo.

Después de conseguir el permiso de la priora para salir unas horas, Angeline, interna en el convento de Santa Anna, en la pequeña ciudad lombarda de Este, se puso en camino para hacer una visita. Angeline llevaba muchos meses sin abandonar los muros del convento, por lo que se sintió un tanto atemorizada cuando se vio sola en el camino aunque conocía perfectamente cada palmo del mismo. La condesa de Moncenigo había muerto al dar a luz su segundo hijo y, desde entonces, la madre de Angeline había residido en la villa, por lo que ella se había criado recorriendo aquellos caminos y vericuetos.

Durante su vida, Mary Shelley fue tomada en serio como escritora. A su muerte, sin embargo, fue principalmente recordada como la esposa de Percy Bysshe Shelley y autora de una solo obra: Frankenstein. En décadas recientes, la reedición de casi todas sus obras ha ocasionado un mayor reconocimiento de su valor, reconociéndola como una de las principales figuras del romanticismo.

"The Mortal Immortal" (1833), a short story by Mary Shelley, relates the life of Winzy, a man who gains eternal life after taking a mysterious drink. At first elated, Winzy likes immortality less and less as time passes and his loved ones grow old and die. Winzy starts considering himself a pariah among people because they die, while he cannot. He even envies the mortality of others but at the same time dreads death more and more, due to having witnessed the deaths of so many, including that of his beloved wife, Bertha.

Mary Shelley had an abiding interest in the mysterious and the supernatural. In this atmospheric tale, she describes the nocturnal wanderings of an enigmatic figure in the woods, and the expectations and conclusions those who have witnessed its activities.

Durante su vida, Mary Shelley fue tomada en serio como escritora. A su muerte, sin embargo, fue principalmente recordada como la esposa de Percy Bysshe Shelley y autora de una solo obra: Frankenstein. En décadas recientes, la reedición de casi todas sus obras ha ocasionado un mayor reconocimiento de su valor, reconociéndola como una de las principales figuras del romanticismo.

An ancient alchemist drags out his weary life in search of the elixir of immortality. But, when his vengeful assistant quaffs the mixture, he discovers that the effects of the draft of immortality may never wear off. Mary Shelley explores the concept of immortality, following a character that never ages through a ponderous and thought provoking life.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English romantic and gothic novelist who is most famous as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to the notable Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She also wrote a number of shorter "tales of the unnatural", of which "The Mortal Immortal", a story of a man who will not die, is the most famous.

Ludovico is a despised second son, only child of a scorned second wife. He finds love with Viola, a peasant girl, and they have a son. Their happiness is threatened when Ludovico's older brother dies suddenly and he becomes the heir. His father, the proud and cruel prince of Mondolfo, will let nothing stand in the way of his legacy.

First published in the English literary anthology annual The Keepsake in 1833 by Mary Shelly, master of Gothic fiction, The Invisible Girl is a story about the turbulence of secret love. Like much of her work, Shelly blends the dark and the supernatural with elements of romance and intimacy and unravels this story within a story with aplomb, and the setting of rural Wales in the early 19th century lends to the foreboding and bittersweet tone of the tale.

Un hombre, al tratar de torcer su destino, por vanidad o codicia, se fabrica su propio infierno en este relato, el protagonista, un joven inmortal, ve envejecer a su amada, huye de un lado a otro para evitar que los demás lo acusen de brujo, sufre la imposibilidad de hacer nuevos amigos y anhela la muerte.

Mary Shelley is of course known because of her short novel Frankenstein. Still, she was always writing, and these tales and mysteries written on her extended travels show how interested she was in the strangeness of people. I also think she wanted to make her mark in a tribute to her famous mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and her famous husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who called her “a child of love and light.”

The Best of Women's Short Stories, Volume 2 is a celebration of iconic female writers from the 19th and 20th centuries; featuring eight full-length stories relating the many experiences and complexities of womanhood. This collection brings together stories by Katherine Mansfield, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Kate Chopin and Jane Austen.

Born in 1797, her mother died when she was only 11 days old. Mary was then raised by her father, who remarried when she was four, with a liberal but informal upbringing. At 17 she began a relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, which was the bedrock of her life, although society viewed the unmarrieds somewhat differently. It was in this relationship that she nurtured and edited Shelley’s verse and wrote, at 21, her signature work, Frankenstein, for which she is so well known.

Three works of fiction, two by Mary Wollstonecraft, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. And Mary Shelley's Matilda - suppressed for more than a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father.

Confront the horrifying consequences of ambition in Frankenstein, question identity in the gothic mystery "Transformation," and ponder the bittersweet curse of eternal life in "The Mortal Immortal." This collection of Mary Shelley's gloriously gothic stories is a must-have for fans of classic literature, haunting storytelling, and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.