The Invisible Girl

Unseen by the proud who cast her out, and then, one night, unseen by all.

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About this edition

On a wild Welsh coast a ruined tower holds a watercolour of a lovely girl, inscribed beneath in golden letters: The Invisible Girl. The fishermen know her only as a light that guides their boats through the dark, a maiden cast out and vanished, half a spectre, half the living, hidden girl herself. From that image Mary Shelley unfolds her strangest and tenderest ghost story, in which the unseen is not the dead but the disowned.

Shelley wrote these tales for The Keepsake, the fashionable London annual, where they first appeared between 1830 and 1833, years when the shadow of Frankenstein still lay over her name.

With it stand two more: Transformation, in which a ruined, prideful youth trades his very shape to a misshapen stranger, and The Mortal Immortal, the confession of a man who drank, by error, the elixir of unending life. All three tales in their original text, bound behind an original painting.

Details

• Mary Shelley (1797–1851)
• Three tales from The Keepsake: The Invisible Girl, Transformation and The Mortal Immortal
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback, 6 × 9, 58 pages