The Rape of the Lock

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Pope was born on 21st May 1688.He was brought up a Roman Catholic at a time where the laws of England were prejudicial towards Catholics. He suffered tuberculosis as a child and was crippled by it. He never grew taller than 4'6". He first published The Rape of the Lock when he was twenty-three years old in 1712. He later added to it in 1714 and 1717. It was written to reconcile two families who had fallen out over a similar incident where a young Lord Petre had cut off a lock of hair from Arabella Fermor's head. Pope went on to translate the works of Homer and produce The Dunciad and An Essay on Man . Pope died on 30th May 1744. Klappentext The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors... Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature. Zusammenfassung The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors... Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

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Alexander Pope

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• Authors: Alexander Pope
• Assisted by: Aubrey Beardsley (Illustration), Sophie Gee (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.08.2007
• EAN: 9780099511526
• ISBN: 978-0-09-951152-6
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics New Look; Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics New Look
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction: general and literary, crime; london; peter ackroyd; society; vintage classics