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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060556594
ISBN: 0060556595
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: July 01, 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: July 03, 2006
Sales Rank: 200891
Studio: Harper Perennial
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One of our most accomplished literary artists, John Crowley imagines the novel the haunted Romantic poet Lord Byron never penned ...but very well might have. Saved from destruction, read, and annotated by Byron's own abandoned daughter, Ada, the manuscript is rediscovered in our time -- and almost not recognized. Lord Byron's Novel is the story of a dying daughter's attempt to understand the famous father she longed for -- and the young woman who, by learning the secret of Byron's manuscript and Ada's devotion, reconnects with her own father, driven from her life by a crime as terrible as any of which Byron himself was accused.
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Rating:  - Should have been "Lord Crowley's Novel"
It's a gross presumption for me to scribble a few lines about a book that Mr. Crowley gave time and blood to write. But reading time is limited, and these reviews help point out what should be read and what perhaps left aside. Read "Little, Big" and others before this one. The idea underlying "Byron's Novel" is faulty, leaving us with the unavoidable outcome. The book should have been much better. How so?
Mr. Crowley's book is faulty on the first level because one cannot write ... Read More
Rating:  - Admirable Achievement
The technique of a story within a story is not new. In fact, it goes back to Sanskrit literature. Shakespeare used it effectively. Gide's "The Counterfeiters" carried on the theme and, bringing it into the modern era, John Gardner used it in his "October Light" and Margaret Atwood in "The Blind Assassin."
I admire both Gardner and Atwood but, in both novels, I found the book within a book distracting.
In Crowley's hands we actually have three stories, each playing off against ... Read More
Rating: - Great Idea
Great idea, that wore thin after a while. I loved the parts with the lovers communicating via email about the discoveries regarding the book. I loved the background of Byron's daughter's story. I didn't really get into the actual "novel" that much. Nice try though.
Rating:  - A Fine and Thoroughly Disappointing Novel
This novel is virtually devoid of the mystery and depth of meaning of Crowley's best novels, which I consider to be Little, Big and the Aegypt series.
Technically, it is a marvel, and the mock Byron novel is a rip-roaring read, and even the email exchanges among the principal contemporary characters are interesting; but the book as a whole is terribly predictable (the Byron novel itself being predictably unpredictable). Considering that the novel includes an account of intense literary sleuthing, ... Read More
Rating: - An intriguing novel that elegantly intertwines mystery with history...
After reading most of the reviews about Crowley's novel, it is clear to me that the greatest misconception that one can have about this story is that it was written to be a recreation of Lord Byron's lost novel and that alone. When in fact, the story Crowley tells within this book holds a much deeper resonance than that of just simply capturing a largely unknown piece of history and giving life to it. This story breathes with the diversity of a great many qualities, both historically and modernly significant; qualities ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060556594
ISBN: 0060556595
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: July 01, 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: July 03, 2006
Sales Rank: 200891
Studio: Harper Perennial