| Byron's Letters and Journals Revised Edition Contributor(s): Byron, George Gordon (Author), Marchand, Leslie a. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0674089472 ISBN-13: 9780674089471 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $83.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1978 Annotation: Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth-century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 77153911 |
| Series: Between Two Worlds |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.84" W x 8.54" (1.05 lbs) 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Byron's letters provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. Readers and reviewers have responded with great enthusiasm to Leslie Marchand's new unexpurgated edition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Marchand, Leslie a.: - The late Leslie A. Marchand was Professor of English, Emeritus, Rutgers University. For his lifelong work on Byron, he was given the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Award. |