The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope author Aubrey Beardsley illustrator Sophie Gee editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Aug '07
£5.99
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'[It is] a whimsical piece of work...a sort of writing very like tickling' Alexander Pope
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.
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.
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 *
ISBN: 9780099511526
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 8mm
Weight: 86g
96 pages