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Mathilda
Narrating from her deathbed, a young woman reveals the dark secret behind her isolation: her father's confession of incestuous love and his subsequent suicide.
"Mathilda" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a novella. Narrating from her deathbed, a young woman reveals the dark secret behind her isolation: her father's confession of incestuous love and his subsequent suicide.
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It is only four o’clock; but it is winter and the sun has already set: there are no clouds in the clear, frosty sky to reflect its slant beams, but the air itself is tinged with a slight roseate colour which is again reflected on the snow that covers the ground. I live in a lone cottage on a solitary, wide heath: no voice of life reaches me. I see the desolate plain covered with white, save a few black patches that the noonday sun has made at the top of those sharp pointed hillocks from which the snow, sliding as it fell, lay thinner than on the plain ground: a few birds are pecking at the hard ice that covers the pools—for the frost has been of long continuance.[2]
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02Mathilda
- 03Chap. I
- 04Chapter II
- 05Chapter III
- 06Chapter IV
- 07Chapter V
- 08Chapter VI
- 09Chapter VII
- 10Chapter VIII
- 11Chapter IX
- 12Chapter X
- 13Chapter XI
- 14Chapter XII
- 15The Fields of Fancy
- 16Chap. 2
- 17Author’s Footnotes:
- 18Footnotes to the Preface:
- 19Notes to Mathilda
- 20Notes to the Fields of Fancy
About this edition
- Author
- Mary Shelley
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 133 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers