Alexander Pope

Aubrey Beardsley

Sophie Gee

Brilliant... triumphant. Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEE<br/>
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A hideous crime is committed at a fashionable London society gathering. The victim is the beautiful, innocent Belinda, her attacker is the dastardly Baron, and his weapon of choice is a pair of scissors...<br/>
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Pope's mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

The Rape of the Lock

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Brilliant... triumphant. Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause

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