Publisher's Synopsis
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 into a fertile abyss, and Mary Shelley became an excellent novelist, essayist, and biographer, having become a great horror name for the mother of science fiction. Join us in these seven selected short stories dealing with the "fragility of individual identity" and "how the role of a person in the world can be cataclysmically altered by an internal emotional disorder or by some supernatural occurrence mirrors an inner schism" The Invisible Girl * The Brother and Sister * The Dream * Transformation * The Mortal Immortal * The Mourner * The Swiss Peasant
