{"product_id":"rupert-brooke-life-death-and-myth-9781781857038","title":"Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParagon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing.   But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic – and sometimes alarmingly unstable.   This revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntelligent, witty and definitive: this is literary biography at its best -- Andrew Roberts\u003cbr\u003eThis book is more than another contribution to the Great War centenary... This is a big book about a short life that has a great deal to say about those who ran the Empire' * The Herald *\u003cbr\u003ePoignant and illuminating, this is a fascinating study of the poet, his era, and the creation of a myth' * Editor's Choice for the Good Book Guide *\u003cbr\u003eJones's shocking 1990 biography is updated but is still the myth-buster to beat all myth-busters * Sunday Herald *\u003cbr\u003eThis closely observed account of the poet and his privileged milieu is an absorbing read * The Independent *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020415795543,"sku":"9781781857038","price":15.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781857038.jpg?v=1750783364","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rupert-brooke-life-death-and-myth-9781781857038","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}