Author: Robert B. MacgregorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Byron Gallery of Highly Finished Engravings, Illustrating Lord Byron's Works, with Selected Beauties from His Poems Elucidated by Historical and Critical Notices
Author: Robert B. MacgregorThe Byron Gallery of Highly Finished Engravings, Illustrating Lord Byron's Works
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems
Author: Eugen KölbingByron
Author: Fiona MacCarthyPublisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1444799878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
The Works of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Works of Lord Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Category : Letters
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Life of Lord Byron: with His Letters and Journals. By Thomas Moore. [With a Portrait.]
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Author: George Gordon Byron Baron ByronPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Vision of Judgment
Author: ByRONPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781721961726
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
THE ViSION OF JUDGEMENT BYRON And only one of foreign derivation, which is the word Egypt. Some readers, who have never practised metrical composition in their own language, may perhaps doubt this, and suppose that such words as twilight and evening, are spondaic; but they only appear so when they are pro nounced singly, the last syllable then hanging upon the tongue, and dwelling on the ear, like the last stroke of the clock. Used in combination. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Life of Lord Byron
Author: John GaltThe Day of the Triffids
Author: John WyndhamPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0593450094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” “[Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the face of dominant nature. . . . Frightening and powerful, Wyndham’s vision remains an important allegory and a gripping story.”—The Guardian What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids—plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.