Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote gothic and speculative fiction, best known for Frankenstein. The novel follows Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a living being and then abandons it, allowing both creator and creature to tell parts of a story shaped by isolation, responsibility, revenge and the desire for companionship. Its frame narrative moves from an Arctic expedition to Victor's history and then to the creature's own account, making the book more structurally complex than many later adaptations suggest. Shelley also wrote The Last Man, an early apocalyptic novel about a future plague, as well as historical fiction and short stories. Her work sits at the meeting point of gothic fiction, early science fiction and Romantic literature, with Frankenstein remaining a natural companion to works by Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Read more Less
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