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Mathilda: A Gothic Tale of Grief, Isolation, and Forbidden Love
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Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Curated Collection Publishing
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Mathilda by Mary Shelley is a haunting gothic novella of grief, isolation, forbidden love, and emotional ruin. Written by the author of Frankenstein, this dark and intimate work reveals Shelley's gift for exploring the hidden chambers of the human heart.
Told as a confession from a young woman facing the end of her life, Mathilda follows a heroine marked by loneliness, secrecy, and devastating loss. After years of separation, Mathilda is reunited with her father, only to be drawn into a tragedy that shatters every hope of happiness. What follows is a deeply psychological story of sorrow, exile, memory, and the desperate need to speak the truth before death.
More inward and personal than Frankenstein, yet equally powerful in its emotional intensity, Mathilda shows Mary Shelley at her most intimate and unsettling. The novella explores the destructive weight of silence, the pain of impossible affection, and the haunting persistence of grief. Its atmosphere is mournful, lyrical, and claustrophobic, making it an essential work for readers drawn to gothic fiction, Romantic literature, and stories of the soul under pressure.
This edition is prepared for clear, comfortable reading while preserving the melancholy beauty, emotional force, and gothic intensity of Shelley's original prose. For readers of classic literature, dark Romanticism, psychological fiction, and Mary Shelley's wider body of work, Mathilda is a brief but unforgettable journey into sorrow, secrecy, and the cost of forbidden feeling.
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