Mathilda

von Mary Shelley

96 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Mathilda is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August1819 and February 1820 and first published posthumously in 1959 It deals withcommon Romantic themes of incest and suicide. The narrative deals with a fathersincestuous love for his daughter.The act of writing this novella distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after thedeaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara at Venice in September 1818 and herthree-year-old son William in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged MaryShelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from PercyShelley and left her, as he put it, on the hearth of pale despair.It has become possibly Mary Shelleys best-known work after Frankenstein.