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Servant Felix tells of how, in 1816 Switzerland, his employer Lord Byron's night of revelrous storytelling with friends (including Percy and Mary Shelley) is interrupted by Lizzie, a blind and scarred girl seeking her sister. Horror unfolds as Lizzie recounts her experience with loss, lightning, and an unprincipled woman scientist. Literary-minded readers will recognize Lizzie's haunting story as the germ of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Poets Byron, Keats, and Shelley (here a girl named Shelly) are re-imagined as modern teenagers in Roth's impassioned tribute to Romanticism. Shy outsider John Keats recounts events leading to Shelly's suicide, as he and handsome, self-obsessed Gordon Byron fulfill her final wishes. High school is just a backdrop to the writers' central preoccupations with sex, death, love, and escaping their tragically dysfunctional families.
128 pp.
| Oxford
| January, 2001
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TradeISBN 0-19-521677-6$$22.95
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British Library Writers' Lives series.
This scholarly biography of one of Britain's most celebrated but paradoxical poets is well researched if a bit academic. Garrett draws upon primary and secondary sources and smoothly incorporates selected verses throughout the volume, as he examines Byron's poetry in the context of his brief, infamous life. Numerous color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings and engravings accompany the text. Bib., ind.