might as well have started and ended her career at age nineteen, based on the way common readership interprets her career. Challenge someone to name something Mary Shelley wrote other than herFrankenstein,and you’re
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author known for hisadventure stories. He is sometimes credited with creating thescience fictionliterary genre, though others give that credit to English writer Mary Shelley. Verne wrote imaginative tales that often revolved around futuristic inventions. His stories are...
Kenneth Grant often talked about a Trans-Plutonic planet, and apparently in 1955 he wrote to the Royal Astronomical Society, asking if they had any knowledge of a planet“beyond Pluto”– which he referred to as“New-Isis.”They told him ‘No’ but mentioned that there was an asteroid, ‘...
This story focuses on four characters, one of which is on a mission to … Launching a series of books and film adaptations, ... Top 10 Halloween Songs. Whether you’re looking for ghosts, crazy cults, psychopaths or dystopian dread, these ten tales will have something for everyone. Gotta ...
Valperga, the novel Mary Shelley wrote after Frankenstein, is based on the life of Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), Prince of Lucca. A brilliant soldier and cruel tyrant, he successfully commanded Ghibelline forces in Tuscany against the Guelphs. ...
Having lost her own mother in childbirth, Mary Shelley drew from personal experience when she wrote Mathilda. The novella tells the story of a young woman who loses her mother at a young age, only to have her father’s affections turn toward her in his grief. The scandalous theme of inces...
Mary Wollstonecraft lived by her pen and wrote trenchant critiques of the role of women and marriage in late 18th century British society. She died aged 38, a few days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley. She is often remembered for writing the Vindication of the Rights ...
-Mary Shelley, the author who wroteFrankensteinat age 18 on a dare from Lord Byron -the Radical Monarchs, a social justice scouting troop for girls of color -Tavi Gevinson, the writer and actor who startedRookiemagazine as a teenager
He wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull for Scorsese, and directed movies like The Yakuza (1974) First Reformed (2017) and American Gigolo (1980) that also starred Richard Gere. Unfortunately, Gere is the weakest part of this film; he rants and complains, but there’s no heart in his ...
By Mary Shelley One of the first true horror novels and what some scholars argue is the first sci-fi story ever written, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a true classic. This story of a scientist driven to create life and the monster he brought into the world has been adapted into movies...