Book by Byron Lord George Gordon
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[Byron] is one of the most versatile and provocative of our letter writers. More perhaps than any other, he has left us a collection of writings that constitute a brilliant and incisive portrait of their author.--Times Literary Supplement
Byron's sinewy, funny, electrifying letters are emergency bulletins from a man operating, more often than not, on the extreme edge of despair and disgrace... We begin to read these letters as speedily as he must have written them, held by his scorn, his dissatisfaction with himself and his blazing energy. He is fiercely alive.--Newsweek
George Gordon 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. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron’s known letters supersedes Prothero’s incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero’s edition included 1,198 letters. This edition has more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.
The second volume of Byron’s letters embraces his second year in Greece, his revealing accounts to Hobhouse and others of his life in Athens, his visit to Veli Pasha, and his return by Malta to England. It covers the period of the loss of his mother and of several of his closest friends, of his first acquaintance with Moore and Rogers, his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the publication of Childe Harold, and the resulting fame that brought him into Whig society. It marks the beginning of his correspondence with Lady Melbourne, who became the confidante of his liaisons with Lady Caroline Lamb and Lady Oxford, and who forwarded his first (rejected) proposal to Annabella Milbanke.
Leslie A. Marchand, the author of critical studies and of the definitive biography of Byron, has brought a lifetime of study to the major task of editing these letters. He has done it with a restraint and objectivity that allows Byron to come through to us with unimpeded clarity.
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Prior owner's name inked on first page upper right corner, else pages clean; binding tight; moderate wear to dustjacket. 298 pages. Volume II: Famous in My Time. Size: 6" x 8.75". Nº de ref. del artículo: S61-056102
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Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Volume II ="Famous In My Time", the second printing from 1974, 298 pages. "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 observations. 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." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Previous owner inscription is present. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nº de ref. del artículo: 031821
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Hard Cover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Volume I ="In My Hot Youth", the second printing from 1974, 288 pages. "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 observations. 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." FINE HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nº de ref. del artículo: 018586
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Hardcover. Condición: Very good +. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. second printing. 6 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, no shelf wear. Binding tight, text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clean, a touch rubbed. Diar. Stax. Nº de ref. del artículo: 51052
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Second Printing. 288pp.incl.index; HB brwn.w/gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ brwn.w/yellow&white; some rub w/lt.wear on edges (sbn 674-08940-5 bk.flap). "The complete and unexpurgated text of all the letters available in manuscript and the full printed version of all others" Vol.I covers early years. Nº de ref. del artículo: 015524
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. none. viii, 298p., (Byron's Letters and Journals, Vol. 2), former owners' sign on front end paper. Nº de ref. del artículo: BS1319
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