Shelley: 1827 books

It is customary to regard Mary Shelley's claims to literary distinction as so entirely rooted and grounded in her husband's as to constitute a merely parasitic growth upon his fame. It may be unreservedly admitted that her association with Shelley, and her care of his writings and memory after his...

It's a chronicle of the last fifty years of American culture as viewed through the lens of one man's love affair with rock and roll. It's an inspiring, sometimes humorous, sometimes despairing, personal reflection on growing up a small town misfit in the '60s and '70s. It's a soap opera. It's a manual...

Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet. This poem was written early in Shelley's career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution....

Mary Shelley lived a literary life. Her father encouraged her to learn to write through letter writing, and her favorite occupation as a child was to write stories. In adulthood she surrounded herself with literary geniuses, one of whom was her husband, the poet Percy Shelley. Her talent blossomed...

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...

This highly imaginative work of Mary Shelley's twenty-sixth year contains some of the author's most powerful ideas ; but is marred in the commencement by some of her most stilted writing. The account of the events recorded professes to be found in the cave of the Cumsean Sibyl, near Naples, where...

En 1814, Mary Shelley, connue pour son célèbre Frankenstein, et son mari Percy Shelley entament avec leur ami poète Lord Byron, un voyage de deux ans qui passe par Genève et Chamonix. Leurs lettres, publiées ici, à la découverte de ces paysages sont enthousiastes.En 1814 Mary Shelley, surtout...

"The Necessity of Atheism" is a treatise on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, printed in 1811 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing while Shelley was a student at University College, Oxford. A copy of the first version was sent as a short tract signed enigmatically to all heads...

It is customary to regard Mary Shelley’s claims to literary distinction as so entirely rooted and grounded in her husband’s as to constitute a merely parasitic growth upon his fame. It may be unreservedly admitted that her association with Shelley, and her care of his writings and memory after...

Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, London and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend, Thomas Love Peacock. The poem is 720...

'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning...

DESCRIPTION With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork, and published on the 200th anniversary of infamous night the novel was spawned, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley’s paragon of horror and science fiction vividly back to life. A...

The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many...

This book contains a 1821 pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, on the death of John Keats. It is widely regarded as amongst Shelley’s most accomplished and well-known works, and is highly recommended for all poetry-lovers. Shelley’s poetry is infused with his belief in the power of...