| Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Tale Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226752283 ISBN-13: 9780226752280 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was "Maurice", the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after "Frankenstein", "Maurice" is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00037789 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.07" W x 8.05" (0.49 lbs) 192 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of novelist and political philosopher William Godwin and radical writer and pioneer of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft, who died when Mary was an infant. Though she received no formal education, many of England's leading writers and intellectuals were frequent guests in her father's house. In 1814, she met the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; the two were married in 1816. Shelley wrote many novels and remarkable essays and "rambles" or travel books during her lifetime, though she is best known for Frankenstein: Or a Modern Prometheus, which she first published anonymously in 1818 and subsequently revised and republished in 1823 and 1831. Shelley's other novels include Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), Lodore (1835), and Falkner (1837). Her novella, Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot was not published until 1998. |