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Item Details
Title:
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RUPERT BROOKE
LIFE, DEATH AND MYTH |
By: |
Nigel Jones |
Format: |
Electronic book text |

List price:
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£7.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1781857156 |
ISBN 13: |
9781781857151 |
Publisher: |
HEAD OF ZEUS |
Pub. date: |
6 November, 2014 |
Pages: |
480 |
Description: |
A candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke reveals that the very different reality behind the golden-boy facade of this English literary icon. |
Synopsis: |
Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic - and sometimes alarmingly unstable. This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth. |
Illustrations: |
16pp b&w photos |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Head of Zeus |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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