Liber Amoris, Or, The New Pygmalion (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by William Hazlitt

Overview

Translated literally as “book of love,” Liber Amoris is William Hazlitt’s fictional account of his affair with the daughter of an innkeeper. In it, he also explores the darker elements of his personality. An important example of Romantic short fiction, this autobiographical novel was reviled upon publication due to its unsavory subject matter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411438132
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	175 KB

About the Author

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) was an English writer best known for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, now known as one of the best writers in both genres. He befriended many people who are now part of the nineteenth-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.