| Falkner by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Fiction, Literary Contributor(s): Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592243649 ISBN-13: 9781592243648 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: Falkner is an exceptional book, and a fitting last chapter to Mary Shelley's career. Sometimes it is said that the great writers examine the world around them, and then write about what they see in it. Surely this is true of Mary Shelley -- was true of her even at age nineteen. She made order out of chaos, and found parents where there were none. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.94" W x 9.12" (1.11 lbs) 332 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Sometimes it is said that the great writers examine the world around them and then write about what they see in it. Surely this is true of Mary Shelley -- was true of her even at age nineteen. She made order out of chaos, and found parents where there were none. The book charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner from committing suicide; Falkner then adopts her and brings her up to be a model of virtue. However, she falls in love with Gerald Neville, whose mother Falkner had unintentionally driven to her death years before. When Falkner is finally acquitted of murdering Neville's mother, Elizabeth's female values subdue the destructive impulses of the two men she loves, who are reconciled and unite with Elizabeth in domestic harmony. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: - "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft." |