The book includes two novels: a biography of the great English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (“The Spirit is Its Own Fatherland”) and a romanticized biography of his wife, the creator of the legendary Frankenstein, fiction writer Mary Shelley (“The Story of the Lost”). The biographies are similar to an adventure novel. Here is a secret wedding, a genius not appreciated during her lifetime, the endless threat of a debt prison, constant wanderings, eternal flight, the tragic death of a great poet, the difficult fate of Mary after the death of her husband: poverty, betrayal of loved ones, a long-awaited but very short period of peace.