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Zastrozzi

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1810100 pagesabout 2 hours
1810
first published
  • 1810Printed for G. Wilkie and J. Robinson · 252 pages · ENG
  • 1955Golden Cockerel P · 132 pages · ENG
  • 1977Arno Press · 220 pages · ENGISBN 9780405101441
  • 2002Broadview Press · 326 pages · ENGISBN 9781551112664
  • 2003Hesperus Press · 136 pages · ENGISBN 9781843910299
  • 2006www.ReadHowYouWant.com · 220 pages · ENGISBN 9781425002121
  • 2004Kessinger Publishing · 100 pages · ENGISBN 9781419195501

"In 1810, while still at Eton, Percy Bysshe Shelley published Zastrozzi, the first of his two early Gothic prose romances. He published the second, St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian, a year later. These sensationalist novels present some of Shelley's earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge, and offer remarkable insight into an imagination that is strikingly modern. This new Broadview Literary Texts edition also brings together the fragmentary remains of Shelley's other prose fiction, including his chapbook, Wolfstein, and contemporary reviews both by Shelley and about his work."--BOOK JACKET.

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AtmosphereGothic

How it reads

ComplexityLayered
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