In Defense of Harriet Shelley

By Twain, Mark

Book Id: WPLBN0002952041
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File Size: 49.74 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	In Defense of Harriet Shelley
Author:	Twain, Mark
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, In Defense of Harriet Shelley
Historic Publication Date:	1892
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


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Description
Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the real Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's Life of Shelley. Even though, as Twain writes, Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it, but is otherwise worshipfully noble and beautiful, Twain shows how Shelley's extra-marital conduct might easily be seen to have been the cause of his wife Harriet's suicide. (Introduction by John Greenman)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Essay/Short nonfiction