Mary Wollstonecraft Books

The story of 'Mary' is all about moods.
Being badly treated by her husband, Mary flees in the arms of her friend Ann. After Ann's death, Mary meets another friend, Henry, who also dies. In a new confrontation with her husband, Mary longs for Heaven, 'a world where there is neither marrying, nor giving in marriage.'

The overall sentiment in this book is 'pity mistaken for love'.
Although Mary promises herself to 'do anything rather than be a slave', her attitude to life is resignation: 'I cannot argue against instincts.' 'Happiness was not to be founded on earth, for life is a dream, a frightful one.'

Against the sorry state of the majority of the English population (hunger, want of education, poverty, misery and dirt) or the hypocrisy of religion ('Many prayers may fall from the lips without purifying the heart'), her only reaction is melancholy: 'I have been wounded by ingratitude.'
There is also an undertone of fear of sexuality and pregnancies: 'love leads to madness.'

Mary is a victim of life. She doesn't live. She is lived.

This story is certainly not one of the highlights of English literature. Its plot is poor and it doesn't have the biting aggression of Mary Wollstonecraft's other story 'Maria'.
But it is still a worth-while read.

I had to read this book for summer reading. The rough storyline is that Frankenstein has created life from dead body parts. In horror, he rejects the creature, and the creation vows revenge on Frankenstein. Considering the idea of the book, it sounds interesting. The writing, however, was extremely boring. It took me a few chapters to get into the book, and then once I was a little intrigued, I would be bored all over again. Mary Shelley seems to write on endlessly about things that are insignificant to the plot, complicating basic understanding. On top of that, things that I thought would be important, such as Frankenstein's wedding, were summed up in about 2 sentences. The emphasis in her book seemed to be off-center, and thus it was very hard to pay attention. The book itself is very short, I believe only 200 pages or so, but it felt like it was much longer. I pity you if you are forced to read this for school (which many are), and I do not recommend this book for leisure reading--there are many other, much better written "classics" out there.

This book starts out intriguing. The main character is riddled with grief over a horrible thing she did years ago and now she's in her mid 30's and dying of old age (...?) and she decides to bear her soul to a priest. So, sprinkled among long descriptions on how to make soup and harvest plumbs among other menial household tasks my imagination has always been satisfied to skip over, we have a basic plot surrounding two unmarried pregnant girls. Honestly, although I did not expect the twist to be what it was, it just didn't add up to anything in my mind worth telling a story about. At the end of the book, after our first main character gets this big secret off her chest, she feels better and goes back to doing housework.
Basically, the writing was dry, the plot was empty, the characters unappealing. I was compelled to find out what the big secret was and after that, the only thing that kept me reading was the fact that I only had three pages left to go. Waste of time book. Bad.

It was very boring and i hated i

Well, I am normally an avid fan of the paranormal and I really thought that this book would be an exciting read. I was wrong. The only good thing about this book is the cool cover picture and the fact that it includes a reprint of the original Frankenstein story by Mary Shelly. Otherwise, this book was a phenomenal waste of money. I didnt even read it, I paged through it and nothing stirred an interest.