Tales and Stories

Title	:	Tales and Stories
Author	:	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Release	:	2021-03-02
Kind	:	ebook
Genre	:	Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature
Size	:	1430226

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It is customary to regard Mary Shelley’s claims to literary distinction as so entirely rooted and grounded in her husband’s as to constitute a merely parasitic growth upon his fame. It may be unreservedly admitted that her association with Shelley, and her care of his writings and memory after his death, are the strongest of her titles to remembrance. It is further undeniable that the most original of her works is also that which betrays the strongest traces of his influence. Frankenstein was written when her brain, magnetized by his companionship, was capable of an effort never to be repeated. But if the frame of mind which engendered and sustained the work was created by Shelley, the conception was not his, and the diction is dissimilar to his. Both derive from Godwin, but neither is Godwin’s. The same observation, except for an occasional phrase caught from Shelley, applies to all her subsequent work. The frequent exaltation of spirit, the ideality and romance, may well have been Shelley’s—the general style of execution neither repeats nor resembles him.

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Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Gwinnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Perrault, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Émile Zola, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gustave Flaubert, Guy Maupassant, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.G. Wells, Honoré de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, James Fenimore Cooper, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice Leblanc, Nikolai Gogol, Oscar Wilde, Prosper Mérimée, René Descartes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Walter Scott & William Shakespeare