Rape of the Lock, The

Publisher:
Penguin Random House
| Author:
POPE, ALEXANDER
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Author:
POPE, ALEXANDER
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors… Pope’s mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors… Pope’s mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

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Alexander Pope was born on 21 May 1688. He was brought up a Roman Catholic at a time where the laws of England were prejudicial towards Catholics. He suffered tuberculosis as a child and as a consequence never grew taller than 4'6". He first published The Rape of the Lock when he was twenty-three years old in 1712. Its success made him a celebrity in polite society. He later added to it in 1714 and 1717. It was written to reconcile two families who had fallen out over a similar incident where a Lord Petre had cut off a lock of hair from Arabella Fermor's head. Pope went on to translate the works of Homer and produce The Dunciad and An Essay on Man. He died on 3 May 1744.

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