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"I read 'Glenarvon,' too, by Caro. Lamb....God damn!" - Lord Byron pIn 1812, Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of a prominent politician and future Prime Minister, began a tempestuous affair with Lord Byron, a liaison that shocked Lamb's contemporaries. Finally, when he became tired of Lamb, Byron cruelly broke off the relationship, and in iGlenarvon/i (1816) Lamb sought revenge. pSet against the backdrop of the violent Irish Revolution of 1798, Glenarvon tells the story of the doomed love of the married Lady Calantha for the dashing revolutionary Lord Glenarvon. Though published anonymously, contemporary readers immediately recognised in Calantha and Glenarvon the counterparts of Lamb and Byron and in many of the minor characters satiric portraits of some of the leading lights of London high society. The novel became an instant success, going through numerous editions and resulting in Lamb's being blackballed from fashionable society. pThe Valancourt Books edition includes the unabridged text of the first edition as well as Lamb's preface from the expurgated second edition. This edition also features a new introduction and notes by Deborah Lutz and an index to characters in iGlenarvon/i and their real-life counterparts.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Glenarvon
• Author: Lady Caroline Lamb
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404
• EAN: 9781934555057
• ISBN: 1934555053
• ID: 04330876
• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Weight: 510 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 140 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. September 2007

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