Free Download Mary Shelley, "Mathilda "
English | ISBN: 0192883046 | 2025 | 208 pages | PDF | 1339 KB
'I am in a strange state of mind. I am alone―quite alone―in the world―the blight of misfortune has passed over me and withered me; I know that I am about to die and I feel happy―joyous―'
The eponymous heroine of Mathilda narrates a tale of incestuous love from her deathbed. Her father's suicide by drowning, and her relationship with a gifted young poet, both contribute to her emotional withdrawal and lonely demise.
This edition of Shelley's second novel, transcribed and introduced by Deanna Koretsky, explores the work both as a complex portrayal of taboo desires and as an intergenerational story of reckoning with the horrors of racism and patriarchy.
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