{"product_id":"mathilda-ebook","title":"Mathilda","description":"\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-(--header-height)\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"dd4da721-9338-41d8-9823-3a8a32937ca4\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-159\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\" data-turn=\"user\"\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"request-69dd3217-efc8-83e8-ac09-8eebe5b9186b-5\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-160\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"919cb963-b8e5-43b0-bf62-4830ba14aa6c\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-3-mini\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" data-turn-start-message=\"true\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word dark markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA daughter’s love. A father’s confession. A silence that destroys them both.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary Shelley presents a work of extraordinary emotional intensity, in which grief, isolation, and forbidden affection are explored with unflinching psychological depth. Written in the form of a personal narrative, the novella moves with quiet gravity through the inner landscape of a mind shaped by irreversible experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMathilda, abandoned in early life and raised in emotional solitude, recounts the course of her existence as it is altered by a devastating and transformative revelation. Her attachment to her father, once the center of her emotional world, becomes the source of profound anguish when a truth emerges that redefines their bond and fractures the foundations of her understanding. As she withdraws from society, she seeks refuge in isolation, where memory and reflection become her only companions. Within this solitude, love and despair intertwine, each deepening the other in a sustained act of remembrance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMathilda’s mother died shortly after giving birth to her. Her father, unable to bear the loss, abandoned her. She was raised by a cold aunt. When her father finally returns, she is seventeen, and she loves him with an intensity born of long absence. He returns her love—but not as a father. He confesses his incestuous desire. She flees. He drowns himself. She lives in isolation, haunted by guilt, writing her story as a confession before dying of a broken heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is Shelley at her most raw and autobiographical: a novella about the longing for a father’s love, the horror of receiving the wrong kind, and the slow, inexorable grief of a woman who cannot forgive herself for a sin she did not commit. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMathilda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was suppressed by Shelley’s own father, William Godwin, who found it too shocking to publish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in 1819–1820, immediately following the deaths of Mary Shelley’s two young children\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuppressed by Mary’s father, William Godwin, who refused to return the manuscript; published posthumously in 1959\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA raw, autobiographical exploration of grief, incest, and suicidal despair, unlike anything else in Shelley’s oeuvre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvailable in multiple formats:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \u0026amp; Hardcover:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Beautifully designed print editions presenting the complete, unabridged text made to last.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEbook:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e DRM-free EPUB compatible with Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and all major e-readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAudiobook:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Professionally narrated, complete and unabridged, available on all major audiobook platforms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears, or the perfect gift for anyone who knows that the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMary Shelley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1797–1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1818). Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London, she was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMathilda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was written in 1819–1820, a period of intense grief following the deaths of her two young children, Clara and William. The novella draws directly on Shelley’s own emotional devastation, her fraught relationship with her father, and her experience of being treated as a social outcast. She sent the manuscript to her father, William Godwin, who refused to return it, finding the subject matter—incest and suicide—too shocking for publication. The novella was not published until 1959, more than a century after her death. It is now recognized as a major work of romantic-era fiction and a powerful precursor to twentieth-century confessional literature. 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