Description - Mathilda (Edition1) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mathilda examines grief, emotional estrangement, and forbidden affection through a reflective narrative shaped by intense isolation. The work opens in a bleak setting where the narrator turns inward, confronting a life marked by sorrow and retreat from human connection. Only fragments of the text are needed to illuminate its core concerns chiefly the devastating impact of unresolved emotional bonds and the pursuit of meaning amid psychological desolation. The voice of the narrator carries the weight of unspoken trauma, entwined with an intense connection to the natural world, which serves both as refuge and mirror to inner suffering. The landscape around her mirrors her internal disarray, drawing the reader into a world where familial experiences and emotional intensity coalesce into haunting introspection. Rather than unfolding a sequence of events, the work moves through meditations on identity, loss, and unattainable solace. The deep internal life of the narrator is shaped by absence, silence, and longing, anchoring the text in questions of memory, personal truth, and the burdens of secrecy. Mathilda thus becomes less a tale of action and more a study in solitude, alienation, and emotional confinement.
Buy Mathilda (Edition1) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Available to order, ships in 8-11 business days
