In addition to Shelley's complete masterpiece, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, this treasury features her melancholy novella Mathilda as well as a significant excerpt from the apocalyptic classic The Last Man. The longer works are accompanied by a trio of short stories: Transformation (1831), The Dream (1831), and The Mortal Immortal (1833).

Author Biography

Daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley edited the works of her husband, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and is best known as the author of Frankenstein. In recent decades her work has been reevaluated and her reputation has risen to that of a major figure in the world of Romantic literature.