The complete online text of The Last Man by Mary Shelley.

By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, tells the story o...

By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, tells the story o...

The most eloquent summary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's position in English letters is still Leigh Hunt's much-quoted couplet from "The Blue-Stocking Revels": "And Shelley, fourfam'd,--for her parents, her lord, / And the poor lone impossible monster...

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain joked Friday that given his campaign's ups and downs, he's shown the stamina of the last man on Earth."I've been declared dead in this campaign on five or six occasions. I won't refer to a recent movie I saw, but...

Phil Spector is seeking a new legal team for his retrial on a charge of murdering actress Lana Clarkson, his attorneys told a court Wednesday.Spector's trial ended last month when the jury deadlocked 10-to-2 with the majority favoring conviction.At a hearing, prosecutor Alan Jackson confirmed...

Leadership: Australian Prime Minister John Howard is the last man standing in the terror war's "coalition of the willing." His unflinching allegiance goes deeper than politics and should make Americans grateful.'America could ask for no better friend and more steadfast ally than Prime Minister John...

While the music industry is becoming less and less friendly for female artists, there is at least one typically male-oriented industry that’s becoming a promising environment for women. Traditionally, comic books were drawn for boys, marketed to boys, and chock-full of male characters. But as...