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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

Mathilda Paperback | Pages: 94 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	Mathilda
ISBN:	1406914061 (ISBN13: 9781406914061)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.25 From 2045 Users | 323 Reviews

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This was Mary Shelleys second work after Frankenstein, and its really interesting to see how similar it is in thematic preoccupations and how it draws on her own life: absent fathers, dead mothers, nature as parent, books as parent, very close father-daughter relationships, human society as false and corrupting, human love and kindness as essential, the city as oppressive compared to the freedom of the countryside, the pleasures and pains of solitude. (that last one in particular; Shelley writes

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

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

Really, really short work, virtually a one idea story that Shelley allows to go on far too long. She is reaching here for shock and sensation and melodrama (in the absence of other words beginning in S), but no doubt I'm too callous or too old or something. It's an aristocratic- Gothic tale, so while in earlier works of Gothic shlocky sensation, illicit passions were worked out to their dark and dreadful conclusions in foreign countries like Italy, or the past, the scene of the action here is

Wow. This book (novella?) very nearly brought me to tears. The writing is so beautiful and moving. The tale is so harrowing. I couldn't stop reading this and the story really does consume you. I'm so glad i found this little gem it's definitely not as popular as Frankenstein by Shelley but in my opinion this is far better with actual likeable characters that you can relate to. I also enjoyed spotting the parallels between this and Shelley's own life as well as the similarities in language and

This is the first book I read by Mary Shelly and I absolutely adore her writing style. A few things about the story made me uncomfortable and I found irrelevant especially that have to do with Mathilda's relationship with her father. However, one of the things I like about this novella is how intimately Shelly describes the toxic shame Mathilda deals with. ye will become a part of that celestial beauty that you admire.

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