Nigel Jones

Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth (MP3-Download)

Ungekürzte Lesung. 1246 Min.
Sprecher: Sackville, John

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Produktbeschreibung

A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade of an English literary iconParagon 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 bisexual, 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. -

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGA Egmont
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 4066339326156
• Artikelnr.: 66683142

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