Classic Literature Writers

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Shelley, Mary (1797-1851)
British writer. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, is best known as the author of Frankenstein (1818). Mary Shelley Links

• Frankenstein

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Scottish writer. Robert Louis Stevenson is famous for Treasure Island and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He also wrote and published travel books like An Inland Voyage (1878) and Travels with a Donkey (1879).

• Across the Plains
• Art of Writing, The
• Bottle Imp, The
• Christmas at Sea
• Kidnapped
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
British writer. Among English prose stylists, none exceeds Jonathan Swift as a master of a perfectly clear, exact, and firm prose. Swift Links

• Battle of the Books, The
• Description of the Morning, A
• Gulliver's Travels
• Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation
• Letter of Advice to a Young Poet, A
• Modest Proposal, A
• Proposal for Correcting, Improving, & Ascertaining the English Tongue, A
• Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift