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"Mathilda" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley revolves around the tragic life of the title character, Mathilda, who narrates the story from her deathbed. Raised by a cold aunt after her mother's death, Mathilda finally reunites with her father, only to discover his incestuous love for her. The novel delves into themes of despair, guilt, and longing for death, portraying a bleak and morbid narrative. Written in a Romantic style, the book explores complex emotions and melodramatic dialogues against the backdrop of rainy moors and gothic elements.
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Sensitive Topics/Content Warnings
The book features themes of incest, suicide, depression, and emotional trauma, which may be distressing to some readers.
From The Publisher:
Between 1819 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote Matilda, her second novel following the classic Frankenstein. The story is reminiscent of Shelley's own life, if not outright autobiographical, with characters resembling herself, her husband Percy Shelley, and her father William Godwin.
Matilda is an often overlooked literary gem written in the classic Romantic style with Matilda on her deathbed telling her tale full of loss, incest, and suicide.
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It's well written as you might suspect a novel by Mary Shelley to be but that doesn't help much as I didn't think the story itself where worth reading. I'm sure this novel was meant to shock people and play with taboo themes. But while that sonetimes can be successful this wasn't it. I didn't feel the story had any substans more then to be shocking.
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Mathilda?
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