Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life
How long it's taken for these two mad, bad and dangerous writers to get together!”—Alan Cheuse, San Francisco ChronicleAcclaimed biographer of James Joyce, Edna O'Brien has written a jaunty” (The New Yorker) 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. With a novelist's understanding of tempo and characterization” (Miami Herald), O'Brien captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait that explodes the Romantic myth. By…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-07127-6
- EAN: 9780393071276
- Produktnummer: 34246226
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 618 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 pages of b/w illustrations
Über den Autor
Edna O'Brien, the author of The Country Girls Trilogy, The Light of Evening and Byron in Love, is the recipient of the James Joyce Ulysses Medal and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in London.
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