Angelmonster
by Veronica Bennett | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0763634077 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0763634077 Global Overview for this book
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Mary and her sister Jane have always longed for a handsome young man, preferably a poet, to whisk them away from their mundane life. Then, in the spring of 1814, Percy Shelley walks into their father's shop, like an angel of deliverance. Seduced by Shelley's radical ideas - freedom from marriage and the binds of religion - the girls flee with him to Europe. But the life they lead together is frowned on by their family and society. Persecuted by gossip and plagued by jealousy and suspicion. Mary becomes haunted by freakish imaginings and hideous visions. Then tragedy strikes, and Mary begins to realize that her dreams have become nightmares - and her angel... a monster.
Read in June 2021.
Mary and her sister Jane have always longed for a handsome young man, preferably a poet, to whisk them away from their mundane life. Then, in the spring of 1814, Percy Shelley walks into their father's shop, like an angel of deliverance. Seduced by Shelley's radical ideas - freedom from marriage and the binds of religion - the girls flee with him to Europe. But the life they lead together is frowned on by their family and society. Persecuted by gossip and plagued by jealousy and suspicion. Mary becomes haunted by freakish imaginings and hideous visions. Then tragedy strikes, and Mary begins to realize that her dreams have become nightmares - and her angel... a monster.
Read in June 2021.
