The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos (Vintage Classics)

by Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator), Alexander Pope (Author), Alexander Pope (Author), Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator), Aubrey Beardsley (Illustrator), Sophie Gee (Introduction)

• New

  Illustrated
  2007

  $8.51

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.27

  In The Rape of the Lock , Pope uses the elevated style of epic poetry to create a delightful mock epic that is steeped in eighteenth-century humour. This edition has comprehensive notes on the poem and an Approaches section offering commentary and activities on key features and techniques, such as Pope's use of elevated language and the allegorical settings and imagery of the poem.

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $16.33