Hazlitt in Love: A Fatal Attachment

by JonCook (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.49

  When William Hazlitt moved into 9 Southampton Buildings, Holborn, in August 1820, little did he know that his life would soon be turned upside-down. On meeting 19-year-old Sarah Walker, his new landlady's daughter, as she served him breakfast on his first morning, he conceived a deep infatuation. The intensity of this obsession would eventually lead him to divorce his wife and write the most controversial book of his career, Liber Amoris . Passion and intrigue, love and deception come together in this intoxicating account of a wild and romantic chapter in the life of a genius.