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OverviewDefence of Harriet Shelley is a classic Mark Twain text that deals the great English poet, Percy Shelley and his wife, Harriet Shelley, and includes the follwoing excerpt: I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley, if I had been justly dealt with. During these six years I have been living a life of peaceful ignorance. I was not aware that Shelley's first wife was unfaithful to him, and that that was why he deserted her and wiped the stain from his sensitive honor by entering into soiled relations with Godwin's young daughter. This was all new to me when I heard it lately, and was told that the proofs of it were in this book, and that this book's verdict is accepted in the girls' colleges of America and its view taught in their literary classes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark TwainPublisher: Blurb Imprint: Blurb Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.223kg ISBN: 9780368730733ISBN 10: 0368730735 Pages: 46 Publication Date: 03 May 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |