Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by British author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the...
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.
FRANCIS FUKUYAMAIS THE OLIVIER NOMELLINI SENIOR FELLOW AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY'S FREEMAN SPOGLI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES. HE HAS PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT AT THE PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY AND AT THE GEORGE MASON...