Mathilda - A Tale of Taboo Love and Sorrow
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781604501827 (1604501820)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Tark Classic Fiction
Pages no: 120
Edition language: English
I suppose I was expecting a lot more, since Frankenstein is one of my absolute favourite books.
Told in first person by Mathilda, a woman perhaps on her deathbed, this very short tale is possibly biographical for Mary Shelley. Mathilda's mother dies around childbirth, and her father's grief is too much so he fleas. She is raised by her aunt until she is 16 and she lives with her father. Sexual...
Book at bedtimeEmilia Fox reads the only other finished work of fiction by celebrated author Mary Shelley
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