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byron in love a short daring life
acclaimed biographer of james joyce edna obrien has written an intimate biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject . she follows byron from the dissipations of regency london to the wilds of albania and the socratic pleasures of greece and turkey culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty four on the publication of childe harold . with her prismatic eye and novelistic style obrien eerily captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait of byron that explodes the romantic myth . from his escapades with john edleston the fourteen year old cambridge choir boy to those with a galaxy of women that included his half sister his wife of one year and the italian countess who forsook her satyr like husband for the peer of england and its greatest poet byron scandalized the world and inspires byronmania to this day . byron as brilliantly rendered by obrien is the poet as rebel imaginative and lawless and defiantly immortal .
hardcover w. w. norton & company 2009 isbn13 9780393070118 isbn10 0393070115
abridged n isbn 13 9780393070118 number in series 1 number of pages 228 publisher w w norton & co inc release date 62135769600000