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| Original Title: | Mathilda |
| ISBN: | 1406914061 (ISBN13: 9781406914061) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Paperback | Pages: 94 pages Rating: 3.25 | 2045 Users | 323 Reviews
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Mary Shelley is exceedingly famous as the author of Frankenstein, but this work isn't known at all and wasn't even published until 1959. With good reason.The story is that Mathilda's father leaves England after the death of his wife and doesn't return until she is 16 whereupon he falls in love with her. He confesses it to her and then kills himself. (view spoiler)[ No hot incestuous sex scenes here, this isn't a book by Virginia Andrews) (hide spoiler)]. Mathilda is consumed with unhappiness and making financial arrangements for a secure future, fakes her own suicide and taking the money, moves to a secluded cottage on the Yorkshire moors with only a servant for company.
Her situation, the loneliness and the depressing view of the future and possibly the bleak, treeless, windswept moors get to her and she decides to really kill herself. Matilda asks her only friend, a poet to make it a romantic suicide à deux and join her in drinking the poisoned beverages she has prepared.
Eloquently, not wanting to die himself, he persuades her to live. But she gets consumption and dies anyway, happy that it is a natural death and so doesn't spoil her chances of being reunited with her father in the happy hereafter. The father whose ardour for her was that of a lover, not a parent. And the daughter knows that and this desiring of with her father can only mean that she returns this unnatural affection and is looking forward to an eternity in her lover-father's arms.
Absolutely dire story, but the writing was ok.
Read March 2011.
Reviewed 2016.
Point Regarding Books Mathilda
| Title | : | Mathilda |
| Author | : | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 94 pages |
| Published | : | November 3rd 2006 by Hard Press (first published 1959) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Gothic. Short Stories |
Rating Regarding Books Mathilda
Ratings: 3.25 From 2045 Users | 323 ReviewsCriticize Regarding Books Mathilda
Chilling and stunning. I enjoyed this almost as much as I did Frankenstein. It's an interesting perspective on the value of life and the influence we have on others, and the influence they have on us. Although the book is an easy read and very short, it really packs a punch and is definitely very dark.I wanted to give this 3 stars because I really didn't like the character of Matilda but Mary Shelley's writing is absolutely stunning, even in a story as short as this one.
1.5/5 I believed myself to be polluted by the unnatural love I had inspired, and that I was a creature cursed and set apart by nature. I thought that like another Cain, I had a mark set on my forehead to show mankind that there was a barrier between me and them. & In truth I am in love with death; no maiden ever took more pleasure in the contemplation of her bridal attire than I in fancying my limbs already enwrapped in their shroud: is it not my marriage dress?I love all of the melodrama of
Read my full review here: http://virtualmargin.blogspot.com/2011/08/mathilda-34100.htmlThis may be one of the most Romantic books I've ever read. Romantic with a big R, not a little one. It's so packed full of feelings, melodramatic dialogues, and rainy moors, you'll be convinced Lord Byron is standing directly behind you.In Mathilda, the title character narrates from her deathbed the tragic story of her life. Having lost her mother at birth, her father leaves her in the care of a cold aunt and
Ah, poor Mary Shelley. Im thinking she has this charmed life daughter of two talented intellectuals, married to a gorgeous poet husband, herself a writer of what turns out to be one of the most famous books of all time, Frankenstein.Then I find out that she wrote a little novella, Mathilda, that so shocked and outraged her father (also her publisher) with its subject of father-daughter incest that it was first published in 1959 over 150 years after it was written. While some read it as
Well this book is pretty awful. The description hints at incest but unless I'm unskilled at reading between the lines of this era's literature, it is really more about a father's guilt for having confusing feelings about his daughter 16 years after the death of her mother. (Not that I wanted to read a novel with incest. I had my share of Flowers in the Attic when we read it on the bus in junior high.)This entire novel is a series of emotional letters and hand-wringing declarations and I wanted
Where is now my hope? For my hope who shall see it? They shall go down together to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust
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