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Mary Shelley

De: Miranda Seymour
Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
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‘The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade…' – Financial Times

‘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 Ensayos No ficción

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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.

Brilliant, The Best Acount of Mary Shelley's Life

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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.

Great historian. Less than impressive subject.

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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

Life Story of the young girl who wrote Frankenstein

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I purchased this both because I have a fasciation of and respect for Mary Shelley and because I was useing this for additional research for my masters. I could not finish listening to it. The mouth sounds and noises were intolerable. Not to mention how can I have faith in an audio production that didn’t catch that Ms. Duncan kept saying Don Juan with the J sound and not the H. Making the name sound more like an anti-Semitic jab(I know it wasn’t just saying it sounded as such) than a title of one of Byron’s poems. Very disappointed and glad it was a credit and not actual cash I spent on this.

Too much mouth noice

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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.

Very detailed

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