Mary Shelley, author of the famous novel Frankenstein, lived for a long time in the shadow of her husband, the famous English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary was talked about primarily as the wife of “that same Shelley,” and some even thought that the author of the novel about Frankenstein was not she at all, but Percy. But the years passed, and the situation changed. The poet Shelley was increasingly forgotten, and Mary’s fame grew, and now they spoke of him as the husband of “that same Mary Shelley.” The life of this writer is a vivid example of how an author is able to immortalize his name with one brilliant work. It is Mary Shelley that is dedicated to the new novel by Yulia Andreeva, which is also supplemented by an essay about the life and work of two other authors with a similar fate - Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Alan Alexander Milne. Each of them is known as the author of only one book, but these books have provided their creators with unfading fame in world literature. Sign of information production 12+