The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England Emily Brand John Murray Publishers Ltd

THE RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK\'Gobsmacking\' The Times\'Luscious\' Mail on Sunday\'Delectable . . . ravishing\' Sunday Times\'A chocolate box full of delicious gothic delights - jump in\' Lucy Worsley\'Stranger than fiction, as dark as any gothic drama . . . utterly gripping\' Amanda Foreman\'Brings to life the colourful characters of the Georgian era\'s most notorious families with all the verve and skill of the era\'s finest novelists . . . A powdered and pomaded, sordid and silk-swathed adventure\' Hallie RubenholdMany know Lord Byron as leading poet of the Romantic movement. But few know the dynasty from which he emerged; infamous for its scandal and impropriety, with tales of elopement, murder, kidnaping, profligacy, doomed romance and adultery. A sumptuous story that begins in rural Nottinghamshire and plays out in the gentleman\'s clubs of Georgian London, amid tempests on far-flung seas, and in the glamour of pre-revolutionary France, The Fall of the House of Byron is the acclaimed account of intense family drama over three turbulent generations. Σελίδες: 368, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0204, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm