The complete online text of The Daemon of the World by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley's dramatic if short life and in his works, enigmatic, inspiring, and lasting: the restless...

The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley's dramatic if short life and in his works, enigmatic, inspiring, and lasting: the restless...

Percy Shelley was a poet, literary theorist, translator, political thinker, pamphleteer, and social activist. A voluminous reader and bold experimenter, he is worth consulting on any of the multifarious topics he addressed, from vegetarianism to war. He...

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Books about magic, read by grown-ups as well as children, are selling like billy-o. The four Harry Potters have now shifted more than 8 million copies altogether. There were 12 million Tolkien titles sold last year alone in the UK. Even the newcomer in...