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11 de ago. de 2012 · Edward John Trelawny (Auteur) 5 ( 2 ) Coups de cœur des libraires ( 1) Alexandre Dumas considérait ce «roman-vrai» comme le plus fabuleux récit d'aventures qu'il eût jamais lu - il en fut d'ailleurs l'éditeur en France au milieu du siècle dernier, mit vraisemblablement la main à la traduction. et alla jusqu'à l'inclure...
Edward John Trelawny nació en 1792. A los trece años ingresó en la Marina y, tras varios años de servicio rutinario, participó en operaciones militares en Java y la isla Mauricio. De hacer caso a su primera —y harto fantasiosa—autobiografía, Adventures of a Younger Son (1831), después de eso desertó y se hizo pirata. En 1812 volvió ...
10 de ene. de 2008 · Pforzheimer copy: Brown bead-grain cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blind embossed decorations, pale yellow endpapers. -- Book label: James Hay, Newcastle;...
Edward John Trelawny, 1792 -1881, English writer. Trelawny entered the Royal Navy at the age of eleven, only to desert and lead a life of adventure (described in his Adventures of a Younger Son, 1831 ). In 1821 he met Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron in Pisa. After Shelley's death, Trelawny supervised the cremation of his body, and helped to ...
8 de jun. de 2022 · Edward Trelawny: Well, Greece declared its independence when the Treaty of Edirne was signed in 1829, so you may judge for yourself. After Byron died in Missolonghi, I stayed and fought side-by-side with Odysseus, a warlord leader who was almost like a brother and, at one point, we commanded five thousand troops.
1 de ene. de 1999 · Dismissed by a contemporary as "Lord Byron's jackal," Trelawny (1792-1881), the 19th-century adventurer and companion of the English Romantics, traded on his celebrity as a survivor all his life. He had burned Shelley's drowned body on the beach at Viareggio and accompanied Byron to Greece, reinventing afterward the Missolonghi deathbed scene ...
- David Crane
Trelawny boasts of his athletic triumphs over Byron in ways that suggest that the spirit of emulation remained strong decades for afterwards. Byron, who saw through Trelawny’s humbug, is himself presented as a poser. Trelawny betrays no empathy for the racking cares that afflicted Byron’s latter days and represents the poet (in contrast to ...
