Kaplan SAT Score-raising Classics Boxed Set: "Frankenstein", The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe AND "The War of the Worlds"

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe

SAT Score-Raising Boxed Set *Competitively priced at $17.95 *Includes over 1,900 SAT vocabulary words in the three books combined *Contains three best-selling titles that appear to readers of both genders *Vocabulary words are bolded throughout and defined on the page facing the story *Indexes in each book to help students quickly find the SAT words they need to know for a higher score *Set includes Frankenstein, The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe , and The War of the Worlds

608 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2006

About the author

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.

The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.

The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.

Reviews

[Tsuki-chan]

I've only read the Edgar Allen poe book out of this collection and I enjoyed it very much so though of course I do indeed wish it would have contained the Raven and The cask of Amontillado. ^.- Very nice though, it has indeed helped me with my choice of vocabulary.

[becca :p (busy bc of school!) · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Frankenstein. Very helpful and convenient to have vocabulary defined in the book.