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

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)

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    Illustrated 2007

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    Paperback 1971

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Synopsis

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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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 96
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 02 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0099511525
ISBN 13: 9780099511526
Book Overview: '[It is] a whimsical piece of work...a sort of writing very like tickling' Alexander Pope

Media Reviews
Brilliant... triumphant. Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause -- Peter Ackroyd
One of the jewels of the Augustan age * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
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 30 May 1744.