Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Presents an edition of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" that highlights and defines 629 vocabulary words that may appear in the SAT, and includes a glossary defining more than one hundred additional challenging words.

Presents a lost manuscript written by Mary Shelly in 1820 and rediscovered in the fall of 1997, in which she tells the story of Maurice, a young boy who has lost his parents; and includes an introductory essay that explores the literary and psychological importance of the story.

After a trip to the wilds of nineteenth-century America with her father, who left England in a jealous fit over her mother's admirer, Ethel returns home, begins a difficult marriage of her own, and slowly feels the need to heal her strained relationship with her mother.

Presents the 1818 text of the novel about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own and learns to loathe himself and hate his creator; and includes explanatory annotations, a selection of related writings, and a collection of critical essays.

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.