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Title: |
The Ring and the Book |
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| By (author): |
Robert Browning Edited by: Thomas J. Collins, Richard D. Altick |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551113724 : 9781551113722 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
824 |
| Weight: |
.959 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - August 2001 |
| List Price: |
34.50 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
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| In June, 1860, Browning purchased an â old yellow bookâ from a bookstall in Florence. The book contained legal briefs, pamphlets, and letters relating to a case that had been tried in 1698 involving a child bride, a disguised priest, a triple murder, four hangings and the beheading of a nobleman. Browning resolved to use it as the source for a poem. The result, The Ring and the Book, is certainly one of the most important long poems of the Victorian era and is arguably Browningâ s greatest work. Basing their edition on the 1888â 89 version of the poem, Altick and Collins include the last corrections Browning intended before his death. In addition to a substantial introduction, this Broadview Literary Texts edition also includes selections from Browningâ s correspondence, and contemporary reviews and reactions to the work. |
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