Mary Shelley’s Forbidden Dreams (Illustrated Edition)

• With 17 pages of images to place the author in her time and enlarge the reading experience.

You probably know about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley writing Frankenstein following a night of ghost stories in a seaside mansion in Switzerland. The 18-year-old wife-to-be of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley said the idea came to her in a dream. But did you know she wrote a number of other dream-like novels, short stories, and plays. Here you will find a unique sampling: a little-known science-fiction novel called The Last Man; two plays, Proserpine and Midas; and an excerpt from her personal journal, explaining how she came to write Frankenstein. Plus there’s a complete Bibliography and nearly 60 illustrations in the accompanying Portfolio.