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In the fall of 1997, in a palazzo in the Tuscan Hills north of Florence, a small booklet sewn into paper covers turned up in a long-unopened crate of old letters and other documents. It bore the title "Maurice" and an inscription: "for Laurette from her friend Mrs Shelley." Investigation proved it to be a story written by Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, a story presumed by scholars to have been irretrievably lost soon after its composition in 1820. It is here published for the first time.
Written two years after her great gothic novel, Maurice dates from a period when Mary Shelley, still only twenty-two, was deeply sunk in depression. She had eloped with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at sixteen, borne him four children and seen three of them die. Thus, though Maurice is basically a charming moral tale written for a child - the daughter of a close friend - it betrays a vein of melancholy, beginning with a funeral and concerning a boy who has lost his parents.
Even the happy ending has a sad twist. Claire Tomalin - the biographer of, among others, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft - was personally involved in the authentication of the rediscovered manuscript. She here contributes a comprehensive introduction that explores the literary and psychological importance of the story and investigates the hitherto obscure histories of the two extraordinary families whose lives it touched.
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Fiction, Kidnapping, Children of the rich, Manuscripts, Textual Criticism, Fishers, Runaway children, History, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. -- Criticism, Textual., Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Manuscripts., Children of the rich -- Fiction., Kidnapping -- Fiction., England -- Fiction., British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, generalShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Maurice, ya da Balikcinin Kulübesi
Oct 17, 2018, Kirmizi Kedi Yayinevi
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Maurice O La Cabana del Pescador
September 2001, Tandem Library
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0613808908 9780613808903
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Maurice O La Cabana Del Pescador
May 2001, Ediciones B
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8466601597 9788466601597
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Maurice, or, The fisher's cot: a tale
2000, University of Chicago Press
in English
- University of Chicago Press ed.
0226752283 9780226752280
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Maurice, or, The fisher's cot: a tale
1998, Knopf
in English
- 1st American ed.
0375404732 9780375404733
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Maurice =: or, The fisher's cot
1998, Viking, in association with the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association
in English
0670881724 9780670881727
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