The Short Fiction of Mary Shelley
This collection gathers the short fiction of Mary Shelley, best known as the author of Frankenstein. Written mostly for the fashionable literary annuals of the 1820s and 1830s, these tales range widely across history and imagination, from stories of doomed love and buried family secrets to bold experiments with the supernatural, including a famous tale of a man revived after centuries frozen in the ice. They show the same fascination with ambition, isolation, and the limits of human power that runs through her great novel, worked out here in shorter and more varied forms. This free PDF and EPUB presents her collected shorter tales.
About the Author
Was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and died eleven days after the birth, and William Godwin, the philosopher who then raised her on his library. She ran away with Percy Shelley at sixteen, while he was…
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The Short Fiction of Mary Shelley (1891) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | 13:03 | |
| 2 | The Sisters of Albano | 39:36 | |
| 3 | Ferdinando Eboli | 46:19 | |
| 4 | The Evil Eye | 53:10 | |
| 5 | The Dream | 42:21 | |
| 6 | The Mourner | 53:51 | |
| 7 | The False Rhyme | 9:15 | |
| 8 | A Tale of the Passions, or, the Death of Despina Part 1 | 32:55 | |
| 9 | A Tale of the Passions, or, the Death of Despina Part 2 | 53:53 | |
| 10 | The Mortal Immortal | 33:50 | |
| 11 | Transformation | 45:13 | |
| 12 | The Swiss Peasant | 39:53 | |
| 13 | The Invisible Girl | 33:33 | |
| 14 | The Brother and Sister Part 1 | 31:52 | |
| 15 | The Brother and Sister Part 2 | 37:54 | |
| 16 | The Parvenue | 25:26 | |
| 17 | The Pole Part 1 | 36:56 | |
| 18 | The Pole Part 2 | 49:05 | |
| 19 | Euphrasia | 34:34 | |
| 20 | The Elder Son Part 1 | 20:18 | |
| 21 | The Elder Son Part 2 | 41:17 | |
| 22 | The Pilgrims | 53:23 |
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