Shelley-Mary Shelley The Dover Reader

The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Shelley (1797&;1851) created a remarkable body of work that includes novels short stories essays plays biographies and travel books. For many years she was remembered solely as the author of Frankenstein and the wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; today her reputation has risen to that of a major figure in the world of Romantic literature.This treasury offers the best of Mary Shelley's writings starting with the complete text of her masterpiece Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus as well as the melancholy novella Mathilda and a significant excerpt from the apocalyptic classic The Last Man. In addition to the essay On Ghosts the collection includes a selection of short stories: Transformation The Dream The Mortal Immortal The False Rhyme and Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman.