Byron Paperback by Benita Eisler

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (2000-05-09)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 880 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679740858
• Item Weight: 686.07 grams
• Dimensions: 7.94 x 5.2 x 2.3 cm

In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence. This magnificent record of a towering figure is sure to become the new standard biography of Byron.

About the Author

Benita Eisler lives in New York City.