Books published by publisher London: The Folio Society, 1989.

2012 Folio Society edition of Shelley's 1826 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

One of the earliest works of protofeminist thought, this startling prescient 1792 book is the first published argument advocating for the societal elevation of women as the intellectual and emotional equals of men. Written against the background of the French Revolution the debate over which caused an uproar in both England and France and the 1791 statement by French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord to the French National Assembly that women should be educated only in domestic matters, this is a furious reprimand of the prevailing attitudes of late-18th-century Europe that women should be docile, virtuous, and untroubled by any matters beyond the home. Well received in its day and still an important resource for anyone wishing to understand the history of feminism, this extended essay demolishes the sexual double standard of the day, offers a rational defense for the education of girls, and demands merely that women be treated as people. British writer and educator MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759 1797), the mother of Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, espoused her then-radical feminist and liberal philosophies in other such works as Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) and History and Moral View of the Origins and Progress of the French Revolution (1793)."

In these wickedly engaging letters, Screwtape, a bedeviling official in the Lower Archy of Hell, tutors his young nephew, Wormwood, in successfully performing his first evil mission--to secure a young man's damnation. Darkly comic, yet deadly serious, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS depicts a morally reversed world in which Screwtape presses his nephew to ever more evil seductions. But success is by no means certain, as his Enemy Above sends out interfering angels to thwart Screwtape. . . . C. S. Lewis was among the most esteemed of modern Christian thinkers, and THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, both entertaining and thoughtful, has become one of his best-loved books.