{"name":"Zastrozzi, A Romance by Percy Bysshe Shelley","short_name":"Zastrozzi, A Romance by Percy Bysshe Shelley","theme_color":"#ffffff","start_url":"/","display":"standalone","background_color":"#fff","description":"“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!”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.It is the ego-driven pursuit of passionate extremes, revenge included, which consigns figures like Zastrozzi and the murderous Matilda to an isolation which is socially destructive as well as self-annihilating. The story of their downfall is related in a relentlessly hysterical style – possibly more easily enjoyed when read aloud!","icons":[{"src":"https://deow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net/image-logo/18509321/zastrozzi-a-romance-by-percy-bysshe-shelley_300x300.jpg","sizes":"300x300","type":"image/png"}]}