Byron's Letters and Journals

by Lord Byron and Leslie A. Marchand

Book Overview

George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674089421
• ISBN13: 9780674089426
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"