BYRON'S TRAVELS
LORD BYRON
UYU 1.190
UYU 1.012

UYU 893
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Editorial: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
Cantidad de páginas: 728
Peso: 400g
ISBN: 9781101908426
A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron's letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life and his wide-ranging travelsand timed to the two-hundredth anniversary of his tragic early death
George Gordon, Lord Byron, was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism. The Byronic hero he gave his name tothe charming, dashing, rebellious outsiderremains a powerful literary archetype. Byron was known for his unconventional character and his extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle: he had numerous scandalous love affairs, including with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Lady Caroline Lamb, one of his lovers, famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know."
His letters and journals were originally published in two volumes; this new one-volume selection includes poems and provides a vivid overview of his dramatic life arranged to reflect his travels through Scotland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Albania, Switzerland, and of course Greece, where he died. It contains a new introduction by scholar Fiona Stafford highlighting Byrons enduring significance and the ways in which he was ahead of his time.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism. The Byronic hero he gave his name tothe charming, dashing, rebellious outsiderremains a powerful literary archetype. Byron was known for his unconventional character and his extravagant and flamboyant lifestyle: he had numerous scandalous love affairs, including with his half-sister Augusta Leigh. Lady Caroline Lamb, one of his lovers, famously described him as "mad, bad and dangerous to know."
His letters and journals were originally published in two volumes; this new one-volume selection includes poems and provides a vivid overview of his dramatic life arranged to reflect his travels through Scotland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Albania, Switzerland, and of course Greece, where he died. It contains a new introduction by scholar Fiona Stafford highlighting Byrons enduring significance and the ways in which he was ahead of his time.
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