Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series

We present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Mary Shelley which are Frankenstein and The Last Man.

Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Two years later, she published her most famous novel, Frankenstein. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835), and the posthumously published Mathilde. Shelley died of brain cancer on February 1, 1851, in London, England.

Novels selected for this book:

• Frankenstein
• The Last Man

This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series; we are sure you will like some of the authors.