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Description for Mary Shelley
Hardback. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: YQS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley's life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th century. After the stormy years of her relationship with Percy Shelley ended in his tragic death, Mary went on to raise her one surviving son, never sure of the loyalty of friends and threatened and intimidated by her dead husband's father. Shelley is known best as the author of Frankenstein, and an important function of this book is to reassess her achievement as the author of seven novels, innumerable short ... Read more
This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley's life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th century. After the stormy years of her relationship with Percy Shelley ended in his tragic death, Mary went on to raise her one surviving son, never sure of the loyalty of friends and threatened and intimidated by her dead husband's father. Shelley is known best as the author of Frankenstein, and an important function of this book is to reassess her achievement as the author of seven novels, innumerable short ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Series
Literary Lives
Number of Pages
209
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312228323
SKU
V9780312228323
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Ref
99-15
About Na Na
John Williams is Reader in Literary Studies at the University of Greenwich.
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