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Loading... Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (original 1823; edition 2009)by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Work InformationValperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823)
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Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley's second novel is sure to be a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel's lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historicalfiction, attributes that can only delight the twentieth-century reader. Shelley's mastery of the intricate details of thirteenth-century Tuscan politics is unique among women of her time, and her resolute filtering of the bloody heroics of the age through the sensibilities of two women who aredestroyed by them reveals the feminist perspective missing so conspicuously from her first novel. The latest addition to the acclaimed Women Writers in English series, this glittering novel from Romanticism's premier woman storyteller belongs on the shelves of all serious readers of Englishfiction. No library descriptions found. |
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This was a sprawling, ambitious novel. And while parts of it were downright boring, other parts were equally interesting. I can't imagine the research and labor that went into putting such a detailed story together- so I give it three stars for that alone.
Would I recommend it to friends? Maybe, if you're up for a bit of torture and not a lot of reward. It takes a plethora of precursory knowledge to understand and is a very slow, involved read. ( )