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Percy Shelley
by
David Vandermeulen
67 pages
Published
February 13th 2019
by Europe Comics
(first published January 1st 2012)
ISBN13: 9791032807613
Edition Language: English
Born into an aristocratic family, Percy Bysshe Shelley has no intentions of following in his father’s political footsteps. The rebellious young poet finds himself drawn to more scandalous pursuits: supporting anti-royalist and anti-clerical causes, championing vegetarianism, and extolling the virtues of atheism, an act that ultimately leads to his expulsion from Oxford University.
Book 1 of "Shelley"
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Art - 3.3 stars
Story - 2 stars
Book, you put me in a predicament. It could be a nice story, but the real Shelley character is certainly not my favorite. Despite the humor and lightness with which the book treats Shelley's escapades, I am afraid that it does not manage to catch my sympathy.
In 1811 Percy Shelley is expelled from Oxford, his father -an aristocrat- is not happy, and then the story continues to tell his decisions in the following years, leaving the volume when he leaves with the best known, admit it, Mary Shelley (for writing Frankenstein). This is the era of Byron, of the scandals of this group of anarchist liberals.
