William Beckford: Composing Mozart

composing for Mozart

John Murray Publishers Ltd (Jun 18, 1998)

9780719558290

| Hardcover

336 pages | 168 x 240 mm | eng English

Value: $ 10.00

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Dewey 828.609

LC Classification PR4092 .M69 1998

LC Control No. gb98044293

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History

Subject

Authors, English
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Romanticism

Plot

This biography documents the colourful life of William Beckford, who scandalized Victorian society by indulging in homoerotic and paedophile activities until the Tory administration exiled him. In his absence his nihilistic Arabian novel Vathek was pirated by a treacherous friend. Beckford spent his declining years in adventures abroad, and built a Gothic masterpiece, Fontwell Abbey, where he bathed in the rain with a sylph-like Albanian footman.

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Value

Value	$ 10.00