Publication

1978 - Lippincott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

104,000 words, Guess

Page Count

416 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10039701290X
  • ISBN-139780397012909
  • Library of Congress Control Number78014395
  • OCLC Control Number4135763
  • Open LibraryOL4726595M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPZ4.N6425 Sd 1978
  • LCCPR9320.9.N5 Sd 1978

Description

Lord Byron was the most famous, the most scandalous, and most admired man in England early in the 19th century, for love affairs with his boyhood nurse, his half-sister, and numerous married women of aristocracy, not to mention prostitutes, servants, and even homosexuals, but he was also a great poet, satirist, and traveler. After Byron's death in 1824 his memoirs were burned as they were considered too scandalous. 150 years later, this novel's author imagine that he found in Greece an ancient manuscript in Byron's handwriting which could be the long lost memoirs. While this book is an ingenious literary fiction, it remains a vivid and bawdy recreation of Byron's life.

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Other Editions

  • The secret memoirs of Lord Byron: [a novel]Lippincott1978-01-01

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