Ariel

A Shelley Romance

Andre Maurois

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Добро
Забележка:: Здрава книга, общо застаряване, пожълтяване на страниците от времето, забележки по кориците.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Penguin Books
Град на издаване:: Middlesex
Година:: 1939 г.
Антикварна:: Да
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 252
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Мемоари, биографии, писма

Ariel, a biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Andre Maurois. The book’s title comes from the intended name of the boat which Shelley designed and which was lost off the coast of Italy, leading to his death. Given that he died at sea as a result of a storm, there is clearly an additional reference to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, lines from which are inscribed on Shelley’s grave in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Shelley was like a node in a network, connected to a number of the interesting people of his time, and inevitably, a biography of Shelley tells their stories too. And many of these stories are tragic - a look at the family tree of the extended Shelley/Wollestonecraft/Godwin Family shows many lives cut short. Shelley’s second wife was Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and the child Mary Wollstonecraft died giving birth to. His first wife, who eloped with him at the age of 16, committed suicide after he abandoned her for Mary. Mary’s step-sister was Claire Clairmont, who bore Byron a child, that he appeared to care little for. She died at the age of 5 from Typhus after being left in a convent.

Ключови думи: English, Английски, Biography, Shelley, Byron