Bøker av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which is considered an early example of science fiction. Her work is distinguished by themes of passion, peril, independent thought, and transformation. Her tales, set against varying backdrops of mediaeval chivalry, wars and revolutions of her time, and grandiose natural scenes, represent a high point in gothic storytelling art.

The novel follows the education of a young woman under the tutelage of a tyrannical father figure. Elizabeth Raby, a six-year-old orphan, saves Rupert Falkner from suicide; Falkner then adopts her and raises her to be a model of virtue. She does, however, fall in love with Gerald Neville, whose mother Falkner had unintentionally killed years before. When Falkner is acquitted of murdering Neville's mother, Elizabeth's female values subdue the destructive impulses of the two men she loves, who reconcile and unite in domestic harmony with Elizabeth.

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