Mary Shelley (Paperback)
| Author: Miranda Seymour |
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Publish Date: 4/16/2007
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(in Inches) 9H x 6L x 1.75T
Pages:
672
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| A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year and a "Washington Post" Best Book of 2001, "Mary Shelley" gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind historyUs most legendary monster. The Mary readers meet here, brilliantly brought to life by Seymour from previously unexplored sources, is brave, generous, and impetuous. |
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An evocative portrait of Mary Shelley captures the turbulent and dramatic life of a woman who, at the age of sixteen, eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, dealt with the loss of four children and tragic drowning of her husband, and created the world's most imaginative literary monster in |
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New York Times Book Review
"[An] affectionate and well-written biography....Miranda Seymour is a novelist as well as an experienced biographer....She has vivid narrative gifts and a perceptive understanding of the main personalities. Her account of Mary Shelley's writings is generally competent but pedestrian, and her view of FRANKENSTEIN inflated...." - Claude Rawson 10/07/2001 New Yorker
"[A] splendid biography...." 10/15/2001
"[An] affectionate and well-written biography....Miranda Seymour is a novelist as well as an experienced biographer....She has vivid narrative gifts and a perceptive understanding of the main personalities. Her account of Mary Shelley's writings is generally competent but pedestrian, and her view of FRANKENSTEIN inflated...." - Claude Rawson 10/07/2001 New Yorker
"[A] splendid biography...." 10/15/2001

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