Zastrozzi, A Romance
Author: first_name: Percy Bysshe
last_name: Shelley
Language: English
Year: 1810

“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!”<br/><br/>

From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defiance of the villain’s departure “with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting revenge”, this first of Shelley’s Gothic novelettes recycles much sensational boyhood reading and also points to some of his more mature concerns. <br/><br/>

It is the ego-driven pursuit of passionate extremes, revenge included, which consigns figures like Zastrozzi and the m