Blazing Star - The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

A thrilling portrait of the wild freedoms enjoyed at the court of Charles II, focusing on the most notorious man of the age, the scandalous Earl of Rochester.

About the author

ALEXANDER LARMAN is a historian and journalist. He is the author of Blazing Star (2014), the life of Lord Rochester, and writes for the Observer, the Telegraph and the Guardian, as well as the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.

Report

Insightful and illuminating... engagingly partisan and elegantly informative' The Times

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Larman, Larman Alexander
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9781781859247
• ISBN: 978-1-78185-924-7
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Literary studies: general, General and world history, Biography: writers, Non Fiction, Biography: historical, political and military, Literary studies: poetry and poets