Transformation: Mary Shelley (Penguin Archive) - Softcover

Shelley, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241746825 ISBN 13: 9780241746820

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2025

Synopsis

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'

His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalks the desolate Genoese coast. A monstrous creature, shipwrecked by a ferocious storm, offers him unimaginable wealth to exchange bodies, entwining their fates. Transformation, with two further tales of striking and eerie power here, shows how Mary Shelley haunts us still.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, she wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. After the tragic loss of three of her four children and drowning of Percy Shelley in Italy, she returned to England and continued to write until her own death.

From the Back Cover

His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalks the desolate Genoese coast. A monstrous creature, shipwrecked by a ferocious storm, offers him unimaginable wealth to exchange bodies, entwining their fates. Transformation, with two further tales of striking and eerie power here, shows how Mary Shelley haunts us still.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241746825
• ISBN 13: 9780241746820
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96