Alexander Larman

Blazing Star (eBook, ePUB)

The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'.

He went to Oxford University at the age of 12

He slept with his first prostitute at 13

He was an alcoholic by 14

He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18

He was acclaimed a war hero at 19

He died of syphilis at the age of 33

He was English history's first celebrity.

He was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Poet, dandy and libertine.

BLAZING STAR is a compelling portrait of a remarkable and complex man, and of a cultural golden age that often spilled over into depravity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781781852644
• Artikelnr.: 41076609

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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