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Maurice, or, The Fisher's Cot
Maurice or The Fisher's Cot
Author: Mary Shelley
In the fall of 1997, in a palazzo in the Tuscan hills north of Florence, a small booklet sewn into paper covers turned up in a long-unopened crate of old letters and other documents. It bore the title "Maurice" and an inscription: "For Laurette from her friend Mrs Shelley." Investigation proved it to be a story written by Mary Shelley, the autho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140276770
ISBN-10: 0140276777
Publication Date: 1998
Pages: 176
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Publisher: Penguin
Book Type: Paperback
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In 1820, two years after she wrote the momentous Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote a story for Laurette, the eleven-year-old daughter of Lady Mountcashell, who had eloped to Italy under scandalous circumstances like Mary herself. The story, Maurice or the Fisher's Cot, had lain unpublished and undiscovered until 1997, exactly two hundred years after Mary Shelley's birth.


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