Mathilda - Couverture rigide

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786271779 ISBN 13 : 9780786271771

Editeur : Thorndike Press, 2005

Synopsis

The memoirs of a young woman who expects to die at a young age reveal Mathilda's childhood with her austere aunt after her mother's death and father's abandonment, and her tragic reunion with her father at the age of sixteen.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second novel of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820. It deals with common Romantic themes of incest and suicide. Narrating from her deathbed, Matilda tells the story of her unnamed father’s confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Matilda’s emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death. The act of writing this short novel distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara at Venice in September 1818 and her three-year-old son William in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged Mary Shelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from Percy Shelley and left her, as he put it, ”on the hearth of pale despair”.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thorndike Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786271779
• ISBN 13: 9780786271771
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 159
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