Matylda with delivery to Ireland

The first Polish edition, translated by Anna Dzierzgowska. First published in 1959, although written in 1819–1820, "Matylda" is one of Mary Shelley's most moving and intimate works. It is a story full of passion and darkness that takes on difficult and controversial themes. At the heart of the tale is a young woman whose identity and sense of self are shaped in the closed, stifling world of family dependencies and social expectations. Trapped in the "magic circle" of conventional womanhood, the heroine grapples with her own desires, guilt and acute loneliness. Evocative descriptions of nature and intense relationships between the characters transport the reader to the very heart of English Romanticism, revealing both its beauty and its unsettling, darker side. Mary Shelley is a superb craftswoman, and through her mastery of the writer's art she joins the ranks of women who teach us what literature and the spirit of otherness are. — Anna Dzierzgowska