In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets.
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In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets.
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Mary Shelley (1797-1851), best known as the author of Frankenstein, was the daughter of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and wife of Percy Bysse Shelley. Claire Tomalin is the author of a number of prizewinning biographies, most recently of Jane Austen: A Life.
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My friend offered me this book to read. It's an amazing work. I read the acutal story and then went back and read the introduction and all the accompanying material. The story itself is cute and definately for children. Then you read the intro and all of a sudden you realize that there was so much more that went into the story than you imagined. I highly reccommend it!
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- Sensitive Plant by Percy Bysshe Shelley on 6 pages
- The Journals of Mary Shelley by Professor Paula R. Feldman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tales and Stories (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories with original engravings by Charles E. Robinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Selected Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Shelley in Front Matter
- Mary Shelley (British Library Writers' Lives) by Martin Garrett in Index
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