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Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

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Unmasking the enigmatic golden-boy poet Brooke.

If you're drawn to the allure of candid biographies and the complex interplay between public image and private turmoil, "Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth" offers a revelatory look at an iconic figure. It peels back the layers of Brooke's carefully constructed facade, taking you into the depths of his secretive world, marked by both literary success and personal struggle. Fans of the genre or those with a keen interest in the tumultuous pre-war era will find his story gripping and full of intrigue.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

Regular price ₱2,470.05 ₱1,282.05 48% off
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ISBN: 9780563488569
Authors: Nigel Jones
Publisher: BBC Books
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.12
(rated by 51 readers)

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"Rupert Brooke, isn't it a romantic name?" wrote Lytton Strachey to Virginia Woolf, after first meeting the man who became the "star" of an exceptionally brilliant generation. But behind the facade of the stunning looks and the golden-boy image a very different Brooke was concealed that was far from romantic - and is now revealed in this utterly candid biography. After cutting a swathe through his contemporaries at Rugby and Cambridge, Brooke became the central figure in two distinct coteries - the homosexual Cambridge secret society "the Apostles" and the "Neo-Pagans", a group of free-thinking young people sworn to a carefree outdoor life of gypsy camps, nude swimming and the great outdoors. This compartmentalism was typical of Brooke - addicted to secrecy, he was loved by both men and women, and was himself highly sexually ambivalent. His boyish charm bowled over (almost) all those who met him - including the contemporary great and good like Asquith, Churchill, H.G. Wells and Henry James. But the surface self-confidence and the effortless literary and social success hid a darker Brooke - revealed in this book. At the height of his promise, a seemingly trivial setback in love propelled Brooke into a complete mental and physical collapse, which stripped him of his defences and brought his inner complexes seething to the surface.
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Unmasking the enigmatic golden-boy poet Brooke.

If you're drawn to the allure of candid biographies and the complex interplay between public image and private turmoil, "Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth" offers a revelatory look at an iconic figure. It peels back the layers of Brooke's carefully constructed facade, taking you into the depths of his secretive world, marked by both literary success and personal struggle. Fans of the genre or those with a keen interest in the tumultuous pre-war era will find his story gripping and full of intrigue.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.