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 Thomas More’s Utopia, published in Latin in 1516, emerged from the intellectual ferment of Renaissance humanism and More’s own complex life as a lawyer, scholar, and eventual Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII. Framed as a conversation in Antwerp between More, his friend Peter Giles, and the fictional traveler Raphael Hythloday, the work describes an imaginary island society whose rational, communal institutions critique the corruption, inequality, and religious strife of sixteen...
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...
