{"product_id":"mathilda-paperback-by-mary-shelley","title":"Mathilda Paperback by Mary Shelley","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eMelville House\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2006-05-01)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e144\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780976658375\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e164.71\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e17.73 x 12.78 x 1.12\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut my father, my beloved and most wretched father... Would he never overcome the fierce passion that now held pitiless dominion over him?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its shocking theme of father-daughter  incest, Mary Shelley’s publisher—her father, known for his own subversive books—not  only refused to publish \u003ci\u003eMathilda\u003c\/i\u003e, he refused to return her only copy of the manuscript,  and the work was never published in her lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His suppression of this passionate  novella is perhaps understandable—unlike her first book, \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, written a  year earlier, \u003ci\u003eMathilda\u003c\/i\u003e 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 redemption.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Shelley\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1797, the daughter of two of the era’s most radical  writers: William Godwin, the anarchist utopian, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft,  who died from the childbirth. After a difficult childhood under a demanding stepmother,  she ran off to the Continent at age 17 with her father’s wealthy—and married—benefactor,  the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, although they did not get married until the suicide  of Shelley’s wife two years later. Despite close intellectual bonds the marriage  was unhappy, due to Percy Shelley’s regular campaigning for open “utopian” sexual  relationships (with her sister, for one), and the deaths of three out of their four  children. In 1817, while visiting Lord Byron at Lake Geneva, the three challenged  one another to write a horror story. The result from Mary was the novel \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e,  an instant popular (although not critical) success. Four years later her peripatetic  husband drowned in a boating accident. Mary Shelley never remarried, but she continued  on as a successful writer until her death in London in 1851.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46555421376673,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780976658375","price":13.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780976658375.jpg?v=1781787123","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/mathilda-paperback-by-mary-shelley","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}