Liber amoris and related writings
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Liber amoris and related writings
（Fyfield books）
Carcanet, 2008
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Liber amoris
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Includes bibliographical references
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- On the past and the future
- Liber amoris
- The journal of F
- The fight
- On great and little things
- On the disadvantages of intellectual superiority
- On the knowledge of character
- On the fear of death
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In 1822 William Hazlitt, forty-four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen-year-old daughter. "Liber Amoris" is the chronicle of that obsession, an extraordinary fragment of Romantic autobiography that explores the unstable nature of what individuals perceive as 'truth', the unknowability of others, and leaves the reader unsure of who is victim, who seducer in this haunting relationship. Gregory Dart sets "Liber Amoris" in its context of Hazlitt's other writings from 1822-3, and provides a wealth of fascinating notes that take us deep into the period and the writer's imagination.
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