With Friends Possessed - A Life of Edward FitzGerald

Informationen zum Autor Robert Bernard Martin (1918-1999) was born in Illinois. He had a distinguished academic career and was Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University, USA, from 1951 to 1975, before retiring to Oxford, where he became a writer. He published ten books about the Victorian era, including biographies such as Tennyson, the Unquiet Heart in 1980 and A Very Private Life in 1991. Klappentext A godless Epicurean! Edward FitzGerald lived in permanent virginity! never pressing his homosexual desires beyond a number of sentimental crushes... The son of a fabulously rich heiress! he rarely travelled... Though he had many friends he also had a perverse penchant for alienating them... Zusammenfassung [Robert Bernard] Martin argues that FitzGerald's greatest achievement, outside the Rubaiyat, is his letters, which certainly have grace and a wistful charm.' Kirkus Review 'There is [] something sad about the life of this loving and never quite satisfied man...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Bernard Martin, Martin Robert Bernard
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.2013
• EAN: 9780571300495
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30049-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Biography: writers