Description
These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "Frankenstein" (1818), "Matilda" ((1819), "Valperga" (1823), "The Last Man" (1826), "Perkin Warbeck" (1830) and "Lodore" (1835).
Table of Contents
Abbreviations -- Introductory Note -- MA TILDA -- Introductory Note -- MYTHOLOGICAL DRAMAS -- Proserpine -- Midas -- Introductory Note -- REVIEWS AND EssAYs -- Madame D’Houtetot -- Giovanni Villani -- On Ghosts -- [The English in Italy] -- A Visit to Brighton -- [Illyrian Poems — Feudal Scenes] -- [Modern Italy] -- [Loves of the Poets] -- [Cloudesley] -- 11572 Chronique du Temps de Charles IX] -- [The Bravo] -- Introductory Note -- PREFACES AND NoTES -- Preface to Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824) -- Memoirs of William Godwin (1831) -- Preface and Notes to The Poetical Works of Perry Bysshe Shelley (1839) -- Preface to Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. By Perry Bysshe Shelley (1840) -- APPENDICES -- 1. (a) Matilda: Endnotes -- (b) The Fields of Fancy -- 2. Proserpine: Variants -- (6) Midas: Endnotes -- 3. (a) Preface to Posthumous Poems: Variants -- (b) Preface and Notes to Poetical Works: Variants -- (c) Preface to Essays, Letters from Aboard: Variants -- 4. [Orpheus].
