Byron: Life and Legend

By Fiona MacCarthy

Book Overview

Fiona MacCarthy brings a fresh, engaging sensibility to a full appreciation of her complex subject. Byron: Life and Legend reveals new aspects of the poet's creative existence and reconsiders the voluminous record left by his friends and family, critics and supporters. MacCarthy retraces Byron's English experiences, his travels in Italy, Turkey, and Greece, and his heroic voyage to Missolonghi, where he died at the age of thirty-six. Full of energy and detail, subtlety and glamour, this immaculately researched work offers a refreshingly personal view of one of the great figures of European Romanticism. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374529302
• ISBN13: 9780374529307
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 674 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"