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Matilda (Penguin Little Black Classics)

Matilda (Penguin Little Black Classics)

by Mary Shelley (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

    $6.30
Synopsis

'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever'. Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

$6.30

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 03 Mar 2016
ISBN 10: 0241251877
ISBN 13: 9780241251874
Book Overview: Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century.

Author Bio
Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen. Three years later, during a wet summer on Lake Geneva, Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece, Frankenstein. The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children, and further tragedy followed in 1822, when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy. Following his death, Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three.