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Mary Shelley, nata Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Londra, 30 agosto 1797 – Londra, 1 febbraio 1851), è stata una scrittrice, saggista e biografa britannica. Figlia del filosofo William Godwin e di Mary Wollstonecraft, autrice della prima dichiarazione dei diritti delle donne, a 16 anni conosce Percy B. Shelley, già sposato, e a 17 anni fugge con lui in Svizzera. Si sposano e hanno tre figli di cui solo uno sopravvive. Il romanzo più famoso di Mary Shelley è Frankenstein, scritto tra il 1816 e il 1817. Nel 1818 i coniugi Shelley si trasferiscono in Italia. Qui Mary scrive Mathilda (1819-1820). Nel 1822 il marito muore e lei ritorna in Inghilterra con il loro unico figlio.
The Mortal Immortal. E-book. Formato Mobipocket ebook
EBOOK   9781531298760

The Mortal Immortal. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Mary Shelley   -  Endymion Press, 2018  - 

JULY 16, 1833. --This is a memorable anniversary for me; on it I complete my three hundred and twenty-third year! The Wandering Jew?--certainly not. More than eighteen centuries have passed over his head. In comparison with him, I am a very young Immortal. Am I, then, immortal? This is a question which I have asked myself, by day and night, for now three hundred and three years, and yet cannot answer it. I detected a gray hair amidst my brown locks this very day-- that surely signifies decay. Yet it may have remained concealed there for three hundred years--for some persons have become entirely white headed before twenty years of age. I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so wearisome to me. For ever! Can it be? to live for ever! I have heard of enchantments, in which the victims were plunged into a deep sleep, to wake, after a hundred years, as fresh as ever: I have heard of the Seven Sleepers--thus to be immortal would not be so burthensome: but, oh! the weight of never-ending time--the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours! How happy was the fabled Nourjahad!----But to my task.

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