Rimbaud by Graham Robb

Rimbaud by Graham Robb

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As a delinquent schoolboy, Arthur Rimbaud set the model of the behaviour that would characterize the rest of his life - adopting and casting off new identities. This biography traces the Bohemian poet in Victorian London, the mercenary in Java and the gun-runner in East Africa.

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Rimbaud by Graham Robb

As a delinquent schoolboy, Arthur Rimbaud set the model of the behaviour that would characterize the rest of his life - adopting and casting off new identities. This biography traces the Bohemian poet in Victorian London, the mercenary in Java and the gun-runner in East Africa.
Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.
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ISBN 13 9780330482820
ISBN 10 0330482823
Title Rimbaud
Author Graham Robb
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2000-09-22
Number of pages 416
Prizes Short-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize 2001 (UK)
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