The Last Man Summary
Mary Shelley

INTRODUCTION. I visited Naples in the year 1818.  On the 8th of December of that year, my companion and I crossed the Bay, to visit the antiquities which are scattered on the shores of Baiae.&nbs... Read more

Biography EssayBy 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;... Read more

Long after the event, Mary Shelley would recall the crucible out of which her most famous fictional progeny was fused. "In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbors of Lord ... Read more

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 Moder... Read more

When they hear the name "Shelley," most students and scholars of literature usually think of the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Students and scholars of those particular types of literature... Read more