Byron: Life and Legend - Softcover

MacCarthy, Fiona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571179975 ISBN 13: 9780571179978

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2003

Synopsis

Physical description; xiv, 674 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims., ports. ; 20 cm. Subject; Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824.

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Review:

A magisterial account of Byron's life as a poet, public figure and serial shagger, this 674- page biography is both scholarly and readable . . . MacCarthy also pays due attention to the poetry, and charts his posthumous influence on figures as diverse as Disraeli, Oscar Wilde and W H Auden (Irish Independent)

Fiona McCarthy deserves huge credit for uncovering so much new and illuminating information. This impressive biography was originally published in 2002 and has now been updated after MacCarthy undertook new research . . . entertaining and easy-to-read (Irish Examiner)

Book Description:

This biography (by Byron's own publisher John Murray) reinterprets Byron's life and poetry. MacCarthy casts a fresh eye on Byron's childhood in Scotland, his embattled relations with his mother and his series of relationships with adolescent boys - a subject ignored in previous biographies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571179975
• ISBN 13: 9780571179978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688