Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land
by:
John Crowley (author)
One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time -- and...
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One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time -- and almost not recognized. Lord Byron's Novel is the story of a dying daughter's attempt to understand the famous father she longed for -- and the young woman who, by learning the secret of Byron's manuscript and Ada's devotion, reconnects with her own father, driven from her life by a crime as terrible as any of which Byron himself was accused.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060556587 (0060556587)
ASIN: 60556587
Publish date: June 14th 2005
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Father-daughter love stories which made me wished I've read some of Byron's works or at least his biographies before… Am searching for the biographies now.Quite a good read, the only thing that I don't enjoy is Ada's notes on the manuscript.
This is a multi-layered novel. First we have a manuscript written by George Gordon, Lord Byron, which in real life wasn't completed. But Crowley gives us the novel in its entirety. Next we have the annotations by Ada Lovelace, Byron's daughter, who possessed the supposed manuscript. Finally, we ...
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