Mary Shelley: literary queen of the Romantic era, deeply influenced by the Gothic tradition, and arguably the matriarch of the Science Fiction genre. Her works, though composed in the 1800s, contain elements straight out of today's headlines: the tension between what science can do vs. what it should do, cryonics, contagion, apocalypse and other dark futuristic themes. Shelley introduced the world to the first "mad scientist" character in her most popular work, Frankenstein, inspiring generations of horror stories, films, and comic books. This collection includes: Novels Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Mathilda, The Last Man Valperga Lodore Falkner, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Children's Literature Proserpine & Midas Short Stories, The Dream The Mortal Immortal, The Evil Eye, The Invisible Girl, The Heir of Mondolfo Transformation, Non-Fiction Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe, Shelley Biography, Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Rosetti

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