Selected Savings — Pick Your Favorites Today
Selected Savings — Pick Your Favorites Today

Shopping Cart

Menu

Fiona MacCarthy: Byron [2003] paperback

Fiona MacCarthy: Byron [2003] paperback

Fiona MacCarthy: Byron [2003] paperback

Original price was: $13.00.Current price is: $10.40.
  • Free shipping on orders over $40!
  • Secure Payment: Guaranteed safe & secure checkout with encrypted protection.
  • Return within 30 days. Duties & taxes non-refundable.

Beginning with his childhood and the sexual abuse that he likely suffered in the care of his nurse, MacCarthy here offers an evenhanded portrait of the legendary Byron. She chronicles a life filled with tempestuous relationships (John Hobhouse, John Murray, and Percy Bysshe Shelley) and affairs (Lady Caroline Lamb, Claire Clairmont, and Countess Teresa Guiccioli) and documents how Byron’s appreciation of the East during his early travels through Greece and Turkey influenced both his life and his writing. The dissolution of his abusive marriage amid rumors of sodomy and incest led to Byron’s self-imposed exile in Switzerland, Italy, and, finally, Greece, where he died contributing to the fight for Greek independence. Throughout, MacCarthy maintains an objectivity that is remarkable given the powerful emotions her passionate, troubled subject tends to evoke.

Add a Review

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related Products

This earthly globe
Sale

This earthly globe

$12.80 $16.00
Va-Va-Voom
Sale

Va-Va-Voom

$11.19 $13.99
The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge
Sale

The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge

$8.80 $11.00
Threads of Empire
Sale

Threads of Empire

$10.39 $12.99