Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame

In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Eisler reexamines his poetic achievement in the context of his extraordinary life: the shameful and traumatic childhood; the swashbuckling adventures in the East; the instant stardom achieved with the publication ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimage; his passionate and destructive love affairs, including an incestuous liaison with his half-sister; and finally his tragic death in the cause of Greek independence. This magnificent record of a towering figure is sure to become the new standard biography of Byron.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/09/2000
ISBN: 9780679740858
Pages: 880
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 1.79d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee

Review Citations: New York Times 07/23/2000 pg. 24
Library Journal 07/01/2004 pg. 130