The Rape of the Lock and a Key to the Lock

by Alexander Pope

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When Lord Petre had the effrontery of cutting off a lock of Lady Arabella Fermor's hair, a veritable war erupted between the two noble families. A mutual friend, saddened by their estrangement, asked Alexander Pope, then a young poet, to write a poem about it, in order to make a joke of it and "laugh them together again". But the result - which in its ingenuity and poetical brilliance reaches peaks of epic sublime - concealed darker and more dangerous...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1847497268

ISBN13:9781847497260

Release Date:October 2018

Publisher:Alma Books

Length:128 Pages

Weight:0.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"

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Classics Fiction Literature & Fiction Poetry

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