A long-lost story for children by the author of "Frankenstein", written in 1820, but never before seen or published. In November 1997, "The Times" announced that the story - known about but believed to have been destoryed - had in fact been discovered in Tuscany. The story was written for the 11-year-old daughter of Lady Mountcashell, a close friend of Mary and her husband Percy Shelley during their exile in Italy. The story is about a boy who runs away from his presumed parents, is adopted by an old fisherman and lives in a cottage near Torquay.

 

 

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published in 1999 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Mary Shelley (1797-1851), best known as the author of Frankenstein , was the daughter of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and wife of Percy Bysse Shelley. Claire Tomalin is the author of a number of prizewinning biographies, most recently of Jane Austen: A Life . Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) was an English writer, best known for her novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus".