Nigel Jones

Rupert Brooke (eBook, ePUB)

Life, Death and Myth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781857151
• Artikelnr.: 41737949

Autorenporträt

Nigel Jones is an author, a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, and has been a TV and radio broadcaster.

Rezensionen

'Intelligent, witty and definitive: this is literary biography at its best' Andrew Roberts