Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-History of a Six Weeks' Tour by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni is a travel narrative by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Published in 1817, it describes two trips taken by Mary, Percy, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont: one across Europe in 1814, and one to Lake Geneva in 1816. Divided into three sections, the text consists of a journal, four letters, and Percy Shelley's poem "Mont Blanc". Apart from the poem, the text was primarily written and organized by Mary Shelley. In 1840 she revised the journal and the letters, republishing them in a collection of Percy Shelley's writings.Maria Godwin: (married Mary Shelley; London, August 30, 1797-ibid, February 1, 1851) was a British storyteller, playwright, essayist, and biographer best known for being the author of the Gothic novel Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus (1818 ), considered the first science fiction work in history. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the poet and romantic philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.
