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Mary Shelley

De : Miranda Seymour
Lu par : Sandra Duncan
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    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 200 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.

    ©2018 Miranda Seymour (P)2018 Simon & Schuster UK

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    • Drone Boy
    • 30/06/2021

    Brilliant, The Best Acount of Mary Shelley's Life

    I am so glad audible has starting offering biographies of this intellectual quality. Miranda Seymour's bio is a little masterpiece, and well worth the listen, and Sandra Duncan reads it with excellence. You must read this if you are interested in the Shelley's, Mary Shelley's parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Romanticism, Frankenstein, sexuality, the historical reception of Mary Shelley, and a highly detailed yet never boring account of Mary's life. The book gives you a great understanding of the generational shift that occurred between the early Romantics, the later Romantics, and the popularizing Victorians. Although not academically pedantic, this book will teach you a tremendous amount, and i definitely wish i read it while studying the romantics at university, as it would have helped in many ways. But at 27 hours, you are in for a long listen, and I would thus recommend taking up a hobby (knitting, drawing, walking) while listening to this marvelous book.

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    • 25/01/2020

    Great historian. Less than impressive subject.

    As good a history of Mary Shelley as is possible. Frankly, her life was boring and her husband a terrible human being. However,I am very glad I listened to it, to get the facts straight on these two important people. I liked the narrator.

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    • 23/08/2019

    Very detailed

    This is not a book for a listener with only a casual interest in the subject. The number of people quoted, mentioned, and described is very confusing and it was difficult to keep straight their significance to the core of the subject. These details tend to obscure the personal story of Mary as a person rather than contribute the insight they obviously are meant to add. A background in early 19th century English literature would be helpful in understanding the book; unfortunately I have never studied that subject.

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