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Cargando... Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Long-Lost Tale (1998 original; edición 1998)por Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Autor), Claire Tomalin (Introducción)
Información de la obraMaurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Long-Lost Tale por Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1998)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I remember how in late 1997 literary circles were exited by the discovery of supposedly lost manuscript by Mary Shelley. This story, Maurice, or The fisher's cot, was subsequently published in a fine, and well-polished hardcover edition by Viking, Penguin in 1998. As the story itself counts only about 30 pages, the book is embellished with a long introduction (55 pages) by Claire Tomalin, many illustrations of authors described in the introduction plus four high-quality photographs of manuscript pages, and reproduces the full text of the story in modernized spelling, followed by a transcript after the manuscript. In 1998, Claire Tomalin was already established as an important biographer, specifically of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley's mother, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley's husband. Therefore, the introduction is a very readable and very interesting piece of writing in its own right. The relations of the many people and their cross-generational ties are a bit confusing, and best summarized by viewing the illustrations facing page 50. In 1786 Mary Wollstonecraft worked as a a governess to the Kingsborough family in Ireland. One of the Kingsborough children, Margaret King, then about 13 years old, later became Lady Mount Cashell, by Tomalin spelled as Lady Mountcashell and settled in Pisa, where she was friends with the Shelleys. Mary Shelley wrote Maurice, or The fisher's cot for Lady Mountcashell's daugher, Laurette. The introduction poignantly describes the difficulties of women to fend for themselves and develop a career as writers in the late 18th and early 19th century. Incidentally, their husbands and men in their circle are shown to be little understanding or outright pricks, notably Lord Byron. The introduction goes on to describe how Lauretta Tighe developed as a writer, and the manuscript remained in her family. Maurice, or The fisher's cot is a charming, little tale, which made an enjoyable read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Maurice o la cabana del pescador es una joya rescatada del profundo mar del olvido. Esta narracion de la autora de Frankestein ha estado perdida durante muchos anos. En noviembre de 1997 The Times anuncio que en un palacio situado al norte de Florencia habia aparecido entre cartas y papeles, en un baul que no se habia abierto durante mucho tiempo, un texto de una historia para ninos escrito por Mary Shelley. Esta historia la escribio para Laurette, una nina de once anos, hija de una companera de exilio en Italia. De ahi que el hallazgo de este manuscrito escrito de puno y letra por Mary Shelley haya sido un acontecimiento literario e historico. En la edicion que presentamos dentro de la coleccion La escritura desatada, hemos enriquecido el texto original con un excelente prologo de Santiago Gamboa, quien desgrana con una extrema sensibilidad todos los aspectos de la obra. Asimismo, las ilustraciones de interior a cargo de Pablo Schugurensky anaden gran fuerza a la historia, en la que el mar y los hombres comparten protagonismo. La narracion es de un enorme atractivo porque bajo una aparente simplicidad se esconde una profunda corriente de melancolia. La historia esta situada en la costa de Devon, y comienza con un funeral. Asi, conocemos a Maurice, un chico que ha perdido a sus padres y que busca a alguien que le proteja de la maldad del mundo. Es asi como encuentra a un padre que ha perdido a su hijo, quien escucha la historia del muchacho y su romantica relacion con el mar. Esta narracion, dura y tierna a la vez, ha sido saludada como una bella historia "que contiene todos los elementos de bondad, limpieza, sufrimientos, injusticia y maldad que caracterizan estas ficciones," y arrojauna nueva luz sobre la genial autora de Frankenstein. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I read the first few pages, up to 13 where there are spoilers to the story of Maurice. Then I skipped ahead to the "Author's Original" version of the story on page 119 (this volume contains the story in two forms) then I went back and finished Tomalin's commentary from pages 13-65, finishing with the poem about Percy on pgs. 155-159.
I enjoyed the short biography of Shelley and friends just as much or more than the story of Maurice but was a bit intrigued by that short story as it was very reminiscent of one I'd read recently. Elizabeth Goudge's Gentian Hill also takes place on Torquay and the "big mystery" is eerily similar. In fact, if it wasn't established in this book that Shelley's short story was only discovered in 1997, I'd be sure that Goudge used it as inspiration for her novel. One of life's great mysteries, I guess... ( )