Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

History of a Six Weeks' Tour (eBook, ePUB)

Through France,rs of Chamouni

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nothing can be more unpresuming than this little volume. It contains the account of some desultory visits by a party of young people to scenes which are now so familiar to our countrymen, that few facts relating to them can be expected to have escaped the many more experienced and exact observers, who have sent their journals to the press. In fact, they have done little else than arrange the few materials ivwhich an imperfect journal, and two or three letters to their friends in England afforded. They regret, since their little History is to be offered to the public, that these materials were not more copious and complete. This is a just topic of censure to those who are less inclined to be amused than to condemn. Those whose youth has been past as theirs (with what success it imports not) in pursuing, like the swallow, the inconstant summer of delight and beauty which invests this visible world, will perhaps find some entertainment in following the author, with her husband and sister, on foot, through part of France and Switzerland, and in sailing with vher down the castled Rhine, through scenes beautiful in themselves, but which, since she visited them, a great Poet has clothed with the freshness of a diviner nature. They will be interested to hear of one who has visited Mellerie, and Clarens, and Chillon, and Vevai-classic ground, peopled with tender and glorious imaginations of the present and the past. They have perhaps never talked with one who has beheld in the enthusiasm of youth the glaciers, and the lakes, and the forests, and the fountains of the mighty Alps. Such will perhaps forgive the imperfections of their narrative for the sympathy which the adventures and feelings which it recounts, viand a curiosity respecting scenes already rendered interesting and illustrious, may excite. The Poem, entitled "Mont Blanc," is written by the author of the two letters from Chamouni and Vevai.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: anboco
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783736415881
• Artikelnr.: 45811692

Autorenporträt

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English writer, best known for her Gothic novel 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' (1818). The book is considered her masterpiece and an early example of science fiction. She also edited the work of her husband, the poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. A significant figure in the Romantic movement in her own right, her work is often praised for its political and feminist themes.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Note on the Text
* List of Maps
* Select Bibliography
* A Selected Chronology of the Shelleys
* History of a Six Weeks' Tour
* Appendix A:Extract from Mary and Percy's journal for 29-31 August
1814
* Appendix B: Extract from Claire Clairmont's journal for August 1814
* Appendix C: Letter from Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron of spring 1816
* Appendix : Letter from Percy Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock of 17
July 1816
* Appendix E: Extract from Mary and Percy's journal for 21-27 July 1816
* Appendix : Lord Byron's note to line 111 of The Prisoner of Chillon
* Appendix H: Percy Shelley's draft of 'Mont Blanc' in the Scrope
Davies Notebook
* Appendix I: Extract from Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man
* Explanatory Notes