Ariel by André Maurois 1985 facsimile edition
This paperback edition, reissued in July 1985, is reproduced here in facsimile to mark Penguin's Fiftieth Anniversary.
Ariel by André Maurois, translated from the French by Ella D’Arcy and published originally by the Bodley Head in 1924 before coming out as the first Penguin in 1935, is a biography of the major Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Picking up from its subject’s unhappy time at Eton College and following him through his rise to fame, turbulent friendship with Byron, marriages and the trauma of his children’s deaths, up until his drowning at the age of 29, the book offers a compelling portrait of this singular figure, whose personality ‘poured outwards in a sort of luminous fringe melting into that of his friends, and even into that of perfect strangers’.
Condition grading: Excellent book in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some damage to top of spine section. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
This paperback edition, reissued in July 1985, is reproduced here in facsimile to mark Penguin's Fiftieth Anniversary.
Ariel by André Maurois, translated from the French by Ella D’Arcy and published originally by the Bodley Head in 1924 before coming out as the first Penguin in 1935, is a biography of the major Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Picking up from its subject’s unhappy time at Eton College and following him through his rise to fame, turbulent friendship with Byron, marriages and the trauma of his children’s deaths, up until his drowning at the age of 29, the book offers a compelling portrait of this singular figure, whose personality ‘poured outwards in a sort of luminous fringe melting into that of his friends, and even into that of perfect strangers’.
Condition grading: Excellent book in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some damage to top of spine section. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
This paperback edition, reissued in July 1985, is reproduced here in facsimile to mark Penguin's Fiftieth Anniversary.
Ariel by André Maurois, translated from the French by Ella D’Arcy and published originally by the Bodley Head in 1924 before coming out as the first Penguin in 1935, is a biography of the major Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Picking up from its subject’s unhappy time at Eton College and following him through his rise to fame, turbulent friendship with Byron, marriages and the trauma of his children’s deaths, up until his drowning at the age of 29, the book offers a compelling portrait of this singular figure, whose personality ‘poured outwards in a sort of luminous fringe melting into that of his friends, and even into that of perfect strangers’.
Condition grading: Excellent book in Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some damage to top of spine section. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
