Blazing Star [electronic resource] : The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Larman, Alexander2014
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He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'. He went to Oxford University at the age of 12 He slept with his first prostitute at 13 He was an alcoholic by 14 He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18 He was acclaimed a war hero at 19 He died of syphilis at the age of 33 He was English history's first celebrity. He was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Poet, dandy and libertine. BLAZING STAR is a compelling portrait of a remarkable and complex man, and of a cultural golden age that often spilled over into depravity.
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Larman, Alexander, Author
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[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
ALEXANDER LARMAN is a historian and journalist. He is the author of Blazing Star (2014), the life of Lord Rochester, and writes for the Observer, the Telegraph and the Guardian, as well as the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.
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9781781852644
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English
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2767519
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