The Second Person from Porlock (Hardcover)

Highgate, London, 1824. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a washed-up opium addict, estranged from his friends and from his neglected wife. His grip on reality is starting to slip; his past and present mingle in laudanum-induced dreams. In a Cambridge college library, Scrivener, a bullied undergraduate, finds a strange annotation in a book of Coleridge's poems. Intrigued by this mystery marginalia and captivated by Romantic poetry, he resolves to become a poet himself, with Coleridge as his guiding light. Across the sea, Samuele, a young Sicilian, discovers that his mother once had a liaison with Coleridge. He sets out for England to learn all he can about the man who may be his father. It isn't long before Samuele and Scrivener cross paths - but will their journeys take them to the real Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

General

Imprint:	Fairlight Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2021
Authors:	Dennis Hamley
Dimensions:	225 x 144 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-914148-03-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Historical fiction
LSN:	1-914148-03-7
Barcode:	9781914148033

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