Tennyson's Gift

Truss, Lynne

ISBN 10: 0007355270 / ISBN 13: 9780007355273

Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2010

About this Item

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Seller Inventory # GRP83628557

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tennyson's Gift
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007355270
• ISBN 13: 9780007355273
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.428 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate.

In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting 'Maud' to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and the mismatched couple, actress Ellen Terry and painter G. F. Watts, are thrown into the company of the remarkable Lorenzo Fowler, the American phrenologist, and his daughter Jessie. Enter mathematician Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), known to Jessie as the 'fiendish pedagogue', and Lynne Truss's wonderfully imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and riotous farce begins to take flight.

About the Author

Lynne Truss is one of Britain’s most well-loved comic writers and is the author of the worldwide bestsellers ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’ and ‘Talk to the Hand’. She reviews for the Sunday Times and writes regularly for radio.