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‘To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘Brilliant and enthralling' – Independent On Sunday
'Wonderfully vivid' – Spectator
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 two hundred 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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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Mary Shelley
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- Drone Boy
- 06-30-21
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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- colin kerr
- 01-25-20
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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- Anonymous User
- 05-20-24
Life Story of the young girl who wrote Frankenstein
It was a bit hard to follow. It’s a huge book. Although I learned much about her and the reader of the book was 100% awesome. I would have really appreciated the life of her from birth till young girl when she wrote it. That’s often fascinated me. What outward forces of history up to that point and even during the life of his father. Another words, anything and everything before she wrote it and her entire life perhaps only 25% of the story rather than 95% of the book. We all change so much from 15 to 70+ but the woman at 70+ is completely a different person than the young girl version of herself. Although we will not have letters, journals etc of her adult life we do have history and culture from her father’s life and then up to the age she wrote the story. Still an interesting story. But had I known the entire book before I started, I would have put the book aside early in the book about when she finished the writing and a bit further. Maybe about 15% of the book and I would be satisfied rather than read the entire book which was very long
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- suzebo
- 08-23-19
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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