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Byron's letters and journals : a new selection /

Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the i...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Lansdown, Richard, 1961- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Édition:First edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal. This new selection, taken from the.
Description matérielle:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191044762
0191044768
0198722559
9780198722557