Mathilda
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0029XGTHY
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