Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life - Rilegato

O'Brien, Edna

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ISBN 10: 0393070115 ISBN 13: 9780393070118

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2009

Riassunto

Places the literary master against a backdrop of dissipated Regency London and other regions he visited throughout his lifetime, chronicling his rise to fame in his mid-twenties while offering insight into his numerous scandal-marked relationships.

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Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce Edna O Brien has written an intimate biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four on the publication of Childe Harold. With her prismatic eye and novelistic style, O Brien eerily captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait of Byron that explodes the Romantic myth. From his escapades with John Edleston, the fourteen-year-old Cambridge choir boy, to those with a galaxy of women that included his half-sister, his wife of one year, and the Italian countess who forsook her satyr-like husband for the peer of England and its greatest poet, Byron scandalized the world and inspires Byronmania to this day. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by O Brien, is the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal."

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0393070115
• ISBN 13: 9780393070118
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 228