Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley's second novel is 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 historical fiction, 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 are destroyed by them reveals the feminist perspective missing so conspicuously from her first novel. The lastest 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 English fiction.
- ISBN10 0342745727
- ISBN13 9780342745722
- Publish Date 13 October 2018 (first published 16 November 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Franklin Classics
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 282
- Language English