Young Rochester: A novel based on his life during the years 1664-1667 - Hardcover

Ruddle, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857760778 ISBN 13: 9781857760774

Publisher: Book Guild, 1996

Synopsis

Young Rochester is a novel rich in historical detail, portraying all the complex aspects of this unique character as he fulfills his role in battle on the high seas, in political life, and in affairs of state-as well as of the heart... Lover, poet adventurer, dandy, rogue-the Earl of Rochester was many things to many people at the court of Charles II. Both loved and loathed in equal measure, he grew into one of the most notorious and controversial figures of the seventeenth century. Rochester's short life was one of excess, both in his love of women and of wine, which lead to his death at the age of just thirty-three. A paradox incarnate, this seducer and adventurer was also a poet of considerable power and great wit, and a man of intellectual integrity and honesty of expression-it is this paradox that Joan Ruddle sets out to explore as she brings the young Rochester to life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Book Guild
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857760778
• ISBN 13: 9781857760774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239