With Friends Possessed
A Life of Edward FitzGerald
'[Edward] FitzGerald (1809-1883) won a small piece of immortality with his translation-adaptation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam... but in every other way he seems to have successfully avoided fulfilment. A godless Epicurean, he lived in permanent virginity, never pressing his homosexual desires beyond a number of sentimental crushes... The son of a fabulously rich heiress, he rarely travelled... Though he had many friends he also had a perverse penchant for alienating them... [Robert Bernard] Martin argues that FitzGerald's greatest achievement, outside the Rubaiyat, is his letters, which certainly have grace and a wistful charm.' Kirkus Re…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-30050-1
- EAN: 9780571300501
- Produktnummer: 14824137
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 11'961 KB
- Auflage: Main
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Robert Bernard Martin
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