Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley : Webster's English Thesaurus Edition

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There are many editions of Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. This educational edition was created for self-improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings. A running thesaurus at the bottom of each page is useful to students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT(r), SAT(r), AP(r) (Advanced Placement(r)), GRE(r), LSAT(r), GMAT(r) or similar examinations. This edition exposes the reader to a maximum number of "difficult, and often encountered" words in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word's meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages. PSAT(r) is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT(r) is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE(r), AP(r) and Advanced Placement(r) are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT(r) is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT(r) is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved.

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Bio of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

( 1797 AD - 1851 AD), English Romantic novelist, biographer and editor, best known as the author of Frankenstein. She was born in London. Her father, William Godwin was the writer and political journalist. She got educated amongst her father's intellectual circle, the critic Hazlitt, the essayist Lamb, the poet Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary authored many fine literary works. *** SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1797-1851), English writer, only daughter of William Godwin and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, and second wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, was born in London on the 30th of August 1797. When she was in Switzerland with Shelley and Byron in 1816 a proposal was made that various members of the party should write a romance or tale dealing with the supernatural. The result of this project was that Mrs Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Frankenstein, published in 1818, when Mrs Shelley was at the utmost twenty-one years old, is a very remarkable performance for so young and inexperienced a writer; its main idea is that of the formation and vitalization, by a deep student of the secrets of nature, of an adult man, who, entering the world thus under unnatural conditions, becomes the terror of his species, a half-involuntary criminal, and finally an outcast whose sole resource is self-immolation. This romance was followed by others: Valperga, or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823), an historical tale written with a good deal of spirit; The Last Man (1826), a fiction of the final agonies of human society owing to the universal spread of a pestilence; The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830); Lodore (1835), and Falkner (1837). Besides these novels there was the Journal of a Six Weeks' Tour which is published in conjunction with Shelley's prose-writings; and Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840-1842-1843 (which shows an observant spirit, capable of making some true forecasts of the future), and various miscellaneous writings. After the death of Shelley, for whom she had a deep and even enthusiastic affection, Mrs Shelley in the autumn of 1823 returned to London. In 1838 she edited Shelley's works, supplying the notes that throw such invaluable light on the subject. She died on the 21st of February 1851.

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