An Anthology

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>An Anthology is a compilation of several stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The collection includes The Heir of Mondolfo, The Invisible Girl, and Maurice, Or, The Fisher's Cot. The stories all revolve around a love that has the power to overcome all evils and transform men deeply. Shelley describes life at sea as perfectly as life on land. She pits family bonds against the destructive forces of nature.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Mary Shelley was born the child of two of the most famous free-thinking intellectuals then living, and she eloped with one of the greatest poets of the age. She wrote her great novel about human monstrosity as part of a contest between friends during a trip to Switzerland in 1814, at a time when she was consistently either pregnant, nursing, or mourning a dead child, and also struggling with her husband?s debt and pursuit of sexual relationships with other women.