Episode 11 - The Mortal Immortal: A Tale

Back of the Bookshelf by C.J. Carter-Stephenson

May 11, 201938:34Arts

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be immortal? Well in our eleventh episode we provide an answer, courtesy of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's The Mortal Immortal: A Tale. Commissioned in 1833 for literary ann...

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