Hazlitt in Love : a fatal attachment /
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| Author / Creator: | Cook, Jon Edward |
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| Imprint: | London : Short, 2007. |
| Description: | 214 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6233511 |
| Summary: | When William Hazlitt moved into 9 Southampton Buildings, Holborn, England, 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, intrigue, love, and deception come together in this intoxicating account of a wild and romantic chapter in the life of a genius.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 214 p. |
| ISBN: | 1904977405 (hbk.) 9781904977407 (hbk.) |
