Mathilda, Paperback by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Brand New, Free shipping...
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Mathilda, Paperback by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Brand New, Free shipping.... Mathilda, Paperback by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, ISBN 154706983X, ISBN-13 9781547069835, Brand New, Free shipping in the US With its shocking theme of father-daughter incest, Mary Shelley’s publisher—her father, known for his own subversivs—not only refused to publish Mathilda, he refused to return her only copy of the manuscript, and the work was never published in her suppression of this passionate novella is perhaps understandable—unlike her first book, Frankenstein, written a year earlier, Mathilda uses fantasy to study a far more personal reality. It tells the story of a young woman whose mother died in her childbirth—just as Shelly’s own mother died after hers—and whose relationship with her bereaved father becomes sexually charged as he conflates her with his lost wife, while she becomes involved with a handsome poet. Yet, despite characters clearly based on herself, her father, and her husband, the narrator’s emotional and relentlessly self-examining voice lifts the story beyond autobiographical resonance into something more transcendent: a driven tale of a brave woman’s search for love, atonement, and took more than a century before the manuscript Mary Shelley gave her father was rediscovered. It is published here as a stand-alone volume for the first time.
