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Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca: Valperga Or The Life & Adv Of

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley''s second novel is sure to be a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel''s lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconven... Read more
Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley''s second novel is sure to be a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel''s lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historicalfiction, attributes that can only delight the twentieth-century reader. Shelley''s mastery of the intricate details of thirteenth-century Tuscan politics is unique among women of her time, and her resolute filtering of the bloody heroics of the age through the sensibilities of two women who aredestroyed by them reveals the feminist perspective missing so conspicuously from her first novel. The latest addition to the acclaimed Women Writers in English series, this glittering novel from Romanticism''s premier woman storyteller belongs on the shelves of all serious readers of Englishfiction. Less

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File size8.19 X 5.59 X 1.5 in
Print pages480
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date September 1, 1997
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195108811
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic...

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