Published by Knopf, 1999
ISBN 10: 0679412999 ISBN 13: 9780679412991
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Published by Vintage, 2000
ISBN 10: 0679740856 ISBN 13: 9780679740858
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Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.8.
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Published by Knopf, 1999
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Benita Eisler's Byron is a masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and pre-figured the modern age of celebrity--an absorbing, illuminating, and wonderfully entertaining account of Lord Byron's spectacular life, monumental work, and lasting heroic legacy. Drawing on previously unavailable material--including family papers only recently brought to light--Eisler offers us a more complex vision of Byron than any we've had before: a man who rose from the depths of poverty and the humiliation of childhood lameness to a pinnacle of success and fame unlike anything the world had ever seen, and whose bravura identity as renegade aristocrat, political revolutionary, mythic lover, and Romanticism's galvanizing hero and antihero was surpassed in brilliance only by his poetic genius. With grace, erudition, and insight, Eisler captures the passions and obsessions that consumed Byron, the fierce devotions and the outsized ego that fired his work, and the despair and self-loathing that plagued his short life. Eisler gives us a richly detailed drama of a childhood of abandonment and shame; of Byron's early days at Harrow and Cambridge; of his humiliating entry into the House of Lords at eighteen; of his adventures in the East, where he consorted with pashas and prostitutes; of his relationships with his contemporaries, among them the twenty-four-year-old Shelley and his wife, Mary; of the instant celebrity that attended the publication of the first cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; and of the almost vengeful determination with which Byron recast himself as the elegant figure that glided through Regency drawing rooms, plotted with Italian Carbonari, loved men and women, and drewsensation to him like a cloak until his death, alone and in exile, at the age of thirty-six. Here also are the first in-depth portraits of the women--and men--Byron loved: his guilty relations with John Edleston, a young Cambridge chorister; his tempestuous affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, who was driven to madness by her love for him; his catastrophic marriage to the lovely Annabella Milbanke; his passionate incestuous relationship with his half sister, Augusta, and the tormented menage a trois they shared with his young wife; and the gentler love of his later life, Teresa Guiccioli, whom he abandoned for his life's last adventure in Missolonghi. Throughout, Eisler offers incisive analysis of Byron's poetry in the context of his extraordinary life--as hero and martyr, aristocratic aesthete and dandy, transgressive rebel fueled by forbidden substances and exiled for forbidden passions--examining in detail the stanzas that inspired his own and succeeding generations as no other writer has since Shakespeare. A magnificent record of a towering figure, sure to stand as the definitive biography for years to come. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2000
ISBN 10: 0140170766 ISBN 13: 9780140170764
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Paperback. Condition: Fine.
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Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1999
ISBN 10: 0241132606 ISBN 13: 9780241132609
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1999
ISBN 10: 0679412999 ISBN 13: 9780679412991
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition stated from 1999. Dust jacket is very good with minimal wear. Cream-colored paper boards and binding are good. Pages are clean and unmarked. 837 pages. LO.
Published by 1999 First edition, Hamish Hamilton., 1999
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
836pp. Index. 44 b/w illustrations. Fine in fine dw.
Published by Knopf, 1999
ISBN 10: 0679412999 ISBN 13: 9780679412991
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. xii, 837pp.
Published by Knopf, 1999
ISBN 10: 0241140838 ISBN 13: 9780241140833
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. A nice, bright copy. ; 8vo; 837 pages.
Published by NY:Knopf,1999,, 1999
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
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Published by London : Hamish Hamilton, 1999
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 835 pages; Physical description: xi, 835 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Drawing upon family papers only recently available, this biography offers a full portrait of the women and men Byron loved, a detailed picture of his marriage, a new examination of his political ambitions and his hunger for a hero's place in history and addresses fully the man, his times and poetry. Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 -- Biography -- English literature -- Poetry and poets -- Romanticism -- Criticism and interpretation. 1 Kg.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1999
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First Edition
Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. (1st paperback) Very large, thick, heavy softcover, heavy wrappers with portrait of Byron on front wrapper onto spine, yellow back wrapper with praise from Robert A. Caro, Kirkus Review and others. 837 heavy pages, two photo sections on photo paper pages. Very light wear at top front tip, spine bottom right edge. Near Very Fine.
Published by Knopf, 1999
ISBN 10: 0679412999 ISBN 13: 9780679412991
First Edition
Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Like New dust jacket. (Lord Byron, English Poets, Biography).
Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1999
Seller: Washburn Books, Pateley Bridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First GB Edition. Sweeping biography of Lord Byron, drawing on previously unavailable family papers. 835pp with index, illustrated with 24 pages of black and white photographs. Slight edgewear and sunning to edges, otherwise good plus copy with no inscriptions. HEAVY BOOK, additional postage required for Air Mail shipping. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Alfred A Knopf, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1999
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Original two toned brown & beige hardcover. Jacket is not price clipped. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall an EXCELLENT book in an EXCELLENT dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Published by London : Hamish Hamilton, 1999
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 835 pages; Physical description: xi, 835 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. Drawing upon family papers only recently available, this biography offers a full portrait of the women and men Byron loved, a detailed picture of his marriage, a new examination of his political ambitions and his hunger for a hero's place in history and addresses fully the man, his times and poetry. Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 -- Biography -- English literature -- Poetry and poets -- Romanticism -- Criticism and interpretation. 1 Kg.