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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Praise for Selected Poems and Prose

This is such an important and definitive edition. It will suit both the scholar and the general reader ... One can only marvel at the amount of editorial work that has gone into this volume

Nick Lezard, Guardian

Articles featuring Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ghost stories, opium and rain: the doomed holiday that inspired Shelley’s Frankenstein

Ghost stories, opium and rain: the doomed holiday that inspired Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s nightmare in the Alps is the stuff of literary legend. But the truth about her trip to Geneva with Percy and Byron – which includes volcanic eruptions, a monkey and a peacock – is even stranger. This is the real story of the birth of Frankenstein.