The Rape of the Lock

Alexander Pope author Aubrey Beardsley illustrator Sophie Gee editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:2nd Aug '07

Should be back in stock very soon

The Rape of the Lock cover

'[It is] a whimsical piece of work...a sort of writing very like tickling' Alexander Pope

The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors...

Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE

A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors...

Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

Brilliant... triumphant. Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause -- Peter Ackroyd
One of the jewels of the Augustan age * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780099511526

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 7mm

Weight: 90g

96 pages