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Book Title
Mathilda
Publication Name
Mathilda
Title
Mathilda
Author
Mary W. Shelley
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0976658372
EAN
9780976658375
ISBN
9780976658375
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Genre
Fiction
Release Date
01/05/2006
Release Year
2006
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.4in
Item Length
7in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz
Series
Art of the Novel
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Fantasy / General, Romance / Erotica, General, Literary
Item Width
5in
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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But my father, my beloved and most wretched father... Would he never overcome the fierce passion that now held pitiless dominion over him? With its shocking theme of father-daughter incest, Mary Shelley's publisher--her father, known for his own subversive books--not only refused to publish Mathilda , he refused to return her only copy of the manuscript, and the work was never published in her lifetime. His suppression of this passionate novella is perhaps understandable--unlike her first book, Frankenstein , written a year earlier, Mathilda uses fantasy to study a far more personal reality. It tells the story of a young woman whose mother died in her childbirth--just as Shelly's own mother died after hers--and whose relationship with her bereaved father becomes sexually charged as he conflates her with his lost wife, while she becomes involved with a handsome poet. Yet despite characters clearly based on herself, her father, and her husband, the narrator's emotional and relentlessly self-examining voice lifts the story beyond autobiographical resonance into something more transcendent: a driven tale of a brave woman's search for love, atonement, and redemption. It took more than a century before the manuscript Mary Shelley gave her father was rediscovered. It is published here as a stand-alone volume for the first time. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

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Publisher
Melville House Publishing
ISBN-10
0976658372
ISBN-13
9780976658375
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44117899

Product Key Features

Book Title
Mathilda
Author
Mary W. Shelley
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Romance / Erotica, General, Literary
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz

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Reviews
"Small wonders" -Time Out London "I wanted them all, even those I'd already read." -Ron Rosenbaum,The New York Observer, "I wanted them all, even those I'd already read." -Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer "Small wonders." - Time Out London " [F]irst-rate&astutely selected and attractively packaged&indisputably great works." -Adam Begley, The New York Observer "I've always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it's the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher's fine 'Art of the Novella' series." - The New Yorker "The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed-tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are." -KQED (NPR San Francisco) "Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package." - The Wall Street Journal From the Trade Paperback edition., "I wanted them all, even those I'd already read." -Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer "Small wonders." - Time Out London " [F]irst-rate…astutely selected and attractively packaged…indisputably great works." -Adam Begley, The New York Observer "I've always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it's the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher's fine 'Art of the Novella' series." - The New Yorker "The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed-tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are." -KQED (NPR San Francisco) "Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package." - The Wall Street Journal From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
823/.7
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Art of the Novella Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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