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Mary Shelley (Paperback)
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Mary Shelley (Paperback)
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List price R478
Loot Price R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
You Save R150 (31%)
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'The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way
for a decade...' - Financial Times 'To be savoured for its vivid
and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times
of the gifted Mary Shelley' - Times Literary Supplement 'Brilliant
and enthralling' - Independent On Sunday 'Wonderfully vivid' -
Spectator The definitive and richly woven biography of Mary
Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein
The creator of the world's most famous outsider became one herself
. . . There is no more dramatic scene in literary history than the
stormy night by Lake Geneva when Byron, Claire Clairmont, Polidori
and the Shelleys met to talk of horror and the unexplained. From
that emerged Frankenstein, a monster who has haunted imaginations
for two hundred years. Miranda Seymour illustrates the rich and
unexplored life of Mary Shelley. Everything from her childhood to
her tempestuous relationship with Percy Shelley; Seymour brings to
life the brilliant mind that created Frankenstein through
unexplored and intriguing sources. The Mary Shelley we meet here is
a woman we can engage with and understand. Her world, so rich in
its settings and its cast of characters, seems drawn from a novel.
She, at its centre, is flawed, brave, generous, and impetuous, a
woman whose dark and brilliant imagination gave us a myth which
seems ever more potent in our own era.
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