{"product_id":"9781781857151","title":"Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth","description":"\u003cp\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, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis revised edition of Nigel Jones's admired biography, including an account of 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152330178800,"sku":"9781781857151","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781857151_p0.jpg?v=1763717440","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781857151","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}