# Matilda

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- Book: [Matilda](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-shelley/matilda) ([Matilda.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-shelley/matilda.md))
- Authors: [Mary Shelley](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-shelley)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-187-4
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2016-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.