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When Belinda awakes from a strange dream and sets about her favourite occupation, the toilette, little does she suspect that a tragedy of Homeric proportions is about to unfold around her. As she walks through the beau monde, admired as a goddess and protected by an entire host of sylphs, she is unaware that evil powers are at work to rob her of a precious lock of hair. Belinda must command all her female guile to protect this lock for, once surrendered, her life will never be the same again...
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An ingenious satire of the battle of the sexes and the follies of a self-centred young lady, 'The Rape of the Lock', together with its mock-interpretation 'A Key to the Lock', is, in fact, a subtle commentary on the contemporary social world and high-society preoccupations, and a cleverly veiled proposal for reform.
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'Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause. The stolen hair has achieved immortality' --Peter Ackroyd
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- PublisherHesperus Press Ltd
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1843910926
- ISBN 13 9781843910923
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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