Though some scholars have recently begun to question whether Aeschylus authored the play Prometheus Bound, there is no question that this classic of ancient Greek literature is a literary achievement befitting the playwright known as the Father of Tragedy. In the play, Zeus tethers a Titan named Prometheus to a gigantic boulder for all of eternity as punishment for bestowing the gift of fire upon mankind. Will the tortured giant ever escape

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When two nineteenth-century Oxford students - the religious Victor Frankenstein a serious researcher and the atheistic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley - form an unlikely friendship which leads to heated discussions on the notions of creation and life the result is a tour-de-force from one of the world's most accomplished authors. Filled with literary lights of the day and penned in period-perfect prose this is sure to become a twenty-first century classic....

Economist editor and biographer Wroe gives us a book about one of the greatest poets in the Western tradition, that is concerned at once with the making of poetry and the transforming power of it. With elegance of style and immersion in Shelley's work, this book aims to turn the poet's life inside out: rather than tracing the events of a life in which poetry erupts occasionally, it tracks the inner journey of a spirit struggling to escape and create....

In the summer of 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, and her stepsister Claire Clairmont visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Encouraged by Byron's friend John William Polidori, Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination...