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Title: Mathilda
Author: Mary Shelley
Narrator: Cori Samuel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-13-17
Publisher: SAGA Egmont
Genres: Classics, World Literature
Publisher's Summary:
"Mathilda" is the finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley's own father, and not published until 1959, more than a hundred years after her death.
©2017 SAGA Egmont (P)2017 SAGA Egmont
Members Reviews:
The description says this ebook was"professionally proof read" to ensure ...
The description says this ebook was"professionally proof read" to ensure accuracy, etc.
I don't know who these "professionals" are but they must have just a first grade education.
I have been a reader for over 50 years. I have read many, many books, classics, non-fiction, fiction and personally I am made sick to death of reading these messy, sloppy ebooks, full of misspelling, grammatical errors..well, anything one could do wrong in writing you will find in this book and very many other ebooks from Amazon. It ruins the whole reading experience.
Dreary and disappointing
This tale is more typical of the melodramatic women's fiction of the day than the brilliant and clever Frankenstein, one of the greatest novels of the century. Although it does have a surprising and lurid twist, this book is ultimately mundane and disappointing. Given how unconventional her Frankenstein was, I kept waiting for some plot element to redeem the story, but it never came.
If you have pleanty of patience, remarkable for someone so young.
In all fairness I read her other things and it is no doubt the style of her time to never reach the point.
"I was a creature cursed and set apart by nature"
Although the dark and turbid mindset of the heroine of this tale gives us an impression of the author's own feelings at this time (her son had recently died), as a work of literature I found this terribly over-the-top and melodramatic.
Matilda's mother dies shortly after her birth, and her distraught father goes abroad. For the next sixteen years the girl grows up in the care of a cold-natured aunt until finally, to her joy, her father returns.
(spoiler alert) After a few deliriously happy months in his company, he suddenly and inexplicably changes, becoming harsh and abrupt. When Matilda demands he tell her why, he at last reveals that he is in love with her. And here the whole thing just became ridiculous to me. Both parties decide they must never again meet; her father goes on to commit suicide. Matilda goes off to live in a cottage on a moor, where she adopts a nun's dress and talks interminably about her longing for death, unable to go back into society as "like another Cain, I had a mark set on my forehead to show mankind that there was a barrier between me and them." (Why? She did nothing wrong.)
As a description of profound, illogical depression, it has some merit, but I have to say that I found Matilda an unpleasantly self-obsessed tragedy queen.
A Draft - The Introduction of this eBook is a Must-Read
* * This review refers to the free Kindle ebook version.
In 1959 Elizabeth Nitchie took the time to study, research, and put together the many factors that make up the story of Mathilda. This Kindle ebook is one of the best annotated free titles I've come across. Ms.
