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Title	:	Mathilda
Author	:	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 94 pages
Published	:	November 3rd 2006 by Hard Press (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Gothic. Short Stories

Mathilda

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.

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

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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.

I've just finished re-reading Frankenstein and it reminded me how much I love the work of Mary Shelley, hence moving on to this small novella. The first part of this book is definitely stronger than the latter half which is a bit fragmented and not terribly polished in my opinion. The first part is just wonderful though - melodramatic, tragic and with all the obsession of the self which marks the typical Romantics of the period. The story commences on a blasted heath, where damaged soul Mathilda

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

Oh, Shelley. First a story about a lonely, half-dead monster, and now a tale of incestuous romance.I was very intrigued about the novella "Mathilda." I had heard of before, as "that other Shelley book," but somehow the knowledge of what it was about managed to never reach me until a few days ago.For those who also do not know the story, this is about a girl who is indeed named Mathilda. Her mother tragically died in childbirth, inspiring her passionate father to flee in grief to the ends of the

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

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

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