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The collection gathers short tales and sketches that range from Gothic and supernatural fictions to romantic and melancholic meditations. Written across different periods, the pieces explore idealized feeling, moral dilemmas, and human responses to loss, passion, and transformation, sometimes veering into speculative conceits such as prolonged life or bodily change. Many narratives favor intense atmosphere and elevated sentiment over mundane realism, combining pathos, irony, and occasional satire. Concise in form, the stories frequently reflect personal sorrow and imaginative longing, offering varied sketches of virtue, misfortune, and the imaginative impulse without a single sustaining narrative arc.

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Title: Tales and Stories

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Author of introduction, etc.: Richard Garnett

Release date: March 1, 2018 [eBook #56665]
Most recently updated: December 14, 2021

Language: English

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THE
TREASURE HOUSE OF TALES
BY
GREAT AUTHORS

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Of this Volume, Fifty-five Copies have been printed
on Dutch Handmade Paper; of which this is
No. ..41..


TALES AND STORIES

BY
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
NOW FIRST COLLECTED
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
RICHARD GARNETT, LL.D.
KEEPER OF THE PRINTED BOOKS, BRITISH MUSEUM
LONDON
WILLIAM PATERSON & CO.
1891