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BOOK 4 - A RUNAWAY STAR
With the instant success of his brilliant new works, THE CORSAIR and LARA, Lord Byron's literary fame as a poet of stature has spread to all parts of America and throughout Continental Europe.
Mary Chaworth still invades Byron's thoughts, but two other women now seek to move her completely out of his way -- Miss Annabella Milbanke, who has now turned into a persistent letter-writer in the hope of renewing Byron's interest in her; and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh, who wishes only the best for him.
Lady Caroline Lamb finally sees a way to wreak her obsessive revenge on Byron, so damning and so unproven, it infuriates all his friends who rush to his defence, but the catastrophic aftermath rings down through history, destroying Byron's reputation, and almost destroying the man
BOOK 5 - A MAN OF NO COUNTRY
Having left England behind him, Lord Byron arrives on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where he meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont. Four young people seeking a new life.
All are brought to life in that happy and haunted summer of true friendship, love, and story-telling; when during a period of stormy weather over the Alps, Mary writes 'FRANKENSTEIN, and Byron writes 'THE VAMPYRE', later plagiarised and published by his physician John William Polidori.
Based on their own words in the letters and journals of Byron, Shelley, and Mary, the author brings the reader inside the Villa Diodati to vividly share in the world of these leading icons of the Romantic Movement during that famous summer in 1816.
Browne's prose is clean, clear, and eloquent. The novel boasts a vibrant, fresh story-line in which Byron's poetry and story are vividly brought to life.
The characters in this novel are fully developed and will delight readers. The introduction of other poets to the cast of characters is a bonus to literature lovers. A well-researched novel of Lord Byron and the life of his close, contemporary circle. Wonderful for history buffs and drama lovers alike." ----- THE BOOKLIFE PRIZE
BOOK 6 - ANOTHER KIND OF LIGHT
"Good night -- or rather, morning. It is four, and the dawn gleams over the Grand Canal, and unshadows the Rialto. I must to bed; up all night -- but, 'it's life, though, damme, it's life!' "
An Englishman in Italy, Lord Byron's life in Venice is full of fun, laughter, and devil-may-care romancing - until he meets his last and truest love, the eighteen-year-old Teresa Gamba Guiccioli, for whom he risks everything, even the danger to his own life; and moreso, his own pride.
Every part of Venice is reflected in his poetry - walking across the bridge that connects the Doge's Palace to the prisons from which none returned, he invented the name that made it famous all over the world, "The Bridge of Sighs"; because of the sad sighs, he believed, that those condemned prisoners would release on seeing Venice and freedom for the last time.
But it is his letters back home to England that bring Venice and its people to life with irresistible high spirits, bewitching and picturesque, with rumours and jokes and flippant with effervescent self-ridicule, occasionally solemn, but not often.
" He [BYRON] is the most enjoyable letter-writer in the world." -- Elizabeth, Countess of Longford.
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