Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester - Hardcover

Larman, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781851093 ISBN 13: 9781781851098

Verlag: Head of Zeus, 2014

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Críticas:

'Insightful and illuminating ... engagingly partisan and elegantly informative' The Times.

'An informative and enlightening biography' The Sunday Times.

'This racy tale is told in scholarly but lively detail by Alex Larman in a beautifully written first book' Daily Express.

'The most comprehensive portrait of Rochester yet' Daily Mail.

'Very good, assiduously researched and well written' Scotland on Sunday.

'Challenges the accepted wisdom that has prevailed for centuries that Wilmot was a dastardly blighter in his conduct and a pornographer in his poetry, painting instead a portrait of one of English literature's brightest lights who died, as bright lights do, far too young' Good Book Guide.

Reseña del editor:

He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'.

He went to Oxford University at the age of 12.
He slept with his first prostitute at 13.
He was an alcoholic by 14.
He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18.
He was acclaimed a war hero at 19.
He died of syphilis at the age of 33.

He was English history's first celebrity.

He was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Poet, dandy and libertine.

BLAZING STAR is a compelling portrait of a remarkable and complex man, and of a cultural golden age that often spilled over into depravity.

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• Verlag: Head of Zeus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1781851093
• ISBN 13: 9781781851098
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408