Send us a text Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818 when the author was only nineteen, emerged from a famous ghost-story challenge issued during a rainy summer in 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, where Shelley, her lover (later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori spent nights reading German horror tales aloud. Unable to sleep after a discussion of galvanism and the possibility of reanimating corpses, Mary experienc...
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Send us a text Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818 when the author was only nineteen, emerged from a famous ghost-story challenge issued during a rainy summer in 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, where Shelley, her lover (later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori spent nights reading German horror tales aloud. Unable to sleep after a discussion of galvanism and the possibility of reanimating corpses, Mary experienc...
Send us a text "The Trial", written by Franz Kafka between 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously in 1925, is a seminal work of modernist literature, reflecting Kafka’s preoccupation with absurdity, bureaucracy, and existential dread. Set in an unnamed city, the novel follows Josef K., a bank clerk inexplicably arrested and prosecuted by a mysterious, opaque legal system for a crime never revealed. Left unfinished at Kafka’s death, the fragmented narrative was compiled by his friend Max Bro...
Classic Stories Summarized
Send us a text Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818 when the author was only nineteen, emerged from a famous ghost-story challenge issued during a rainy summer in 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, where Shelley, her lover (later husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori spent nights reading German horror tales aloud. Unable to sleep after a discussion of galvanism and the possibility of reanimating corpses, Mary experienc...
