{"product_id":"9781781857038","title":"Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade of an English literary icon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParagon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915. The 27-year-old author of the patriotic sonnet \"The Soldier\" was buried in a grave strewn with olive branches and scented with sage. All England mourned his passing. But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise, a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogynistic, anti-Semitic—and sometimes alarmingly unstable. This revised edition of Nigel Jones’s admired biography, with a new chapter on a previously unknown affair of Brooke's, reveals a more conflicted and troubled individual than the gilded Adonis of English literary myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Head of Zeus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049602367728,"sku":"9781781857038","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781857038_p0.jpg?v=1763717821","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781857038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}