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The Life Of Robert Burns (Paperback, Main)
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The Life Of Robert Burns (Paperback, Main)
Series: Canongate Classics
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List price R404
Loot Price R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
You Save R57 (14%)
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It's not difficult to see why this created such a storm of protest
on its first publication in 1930 - Carswell exposes the sexual
misdemeanours, drinking bouts and general waywardness that her more
reverential predecessors had turned a blind eye to. In doing so she
brought alive the personality of a great man; an account which
remains unsurpassed. (Kirkus UK)
First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm of protest,
Catherine Carswell's The Life of Robert Burns remains the standard
work on its subject. Carswell deliberately shakes the image of
Burns as a romantic hero - exposing the sexual misdemeanours,
drinking bouts and waywardness that other, more reverential,
biographies choose to overlook. Catherine Carswell's real
achievement is to bring alive the personality of a great man:
passionate, hard-living, generous, melancholic, morbid and
triumphant . . . the very archetype of the supreme creative artist.
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