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I think there is an understated quality to this short work from Mary Shelley that I really loved. I hadn’t heard of this title but became familiar with it during a recent group read. What I really like about Mary Shelley is her writing style, and there are definitive similarities to Frankenstein in some aspects of how she presents the tale here.
In the story, there is a ghostly figure who resides and apparently haunts a tower, and she is dubbed “the invisible girl” and rumors of apparitions conc ...more
In the story, there is a ghostly figure who resides and apparently haunts a tower, and she is dubbed “the invisible girl” and rumors of apparitions conc ...more
The Invisible Girl is a classic romance story. A sad girl is adopted by a wealthy man, who brings her to his home and raises her alongside his biological son. As the years pass they become friends and the begin to fall in love. When the widower/father finds out he expresses his disapproval. But, eventually they convince him that they are meant to be together and they marry in his mansion.
We watch as these characters go from lonely, isolated, and swamped by grief people to happy and content ones. ...more
We watch as these characters go from lonely, isolated, and swamped by grief people to happy and content ones. ...more
