Spoilers!Frankenstein is the first book written by Mary Shelley (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, friend of Lord Byron), and her most famous. First published in 1818, she later revised it for its second printing in 1823, adding a preface that clear...
Oh, Shelley. First a story about a lonely, half-dead monster, and now a tale of incestuous romance.I was very intrigued about the novella "Mathilda." I had heard of before, as "that other Shelley book," but somehow the knowledge of what it was about managed to never reach me until a few days ago....
Travelled to Lucca and saw a wine named after the male lead in this 'begging to be an opera' historical fiction from the Renaissance. Puccini lived and died in his beloved Lucca and would be able to deal with all the drama, emotions, cruelty and beauty. Can anyone translate the last few lines for...
