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Tom Holland

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The thing is, this novel is ridiculous.

I wasn't at all nervous. The thing is, this novel is ridiculous. It is a more concisely-written Interview With The Vampire with Lord Byron as the main character and the plot a strangely-paced version of Byron's life. The framing device is basically pointless and the long section in which the ampire finds out about vampires and is trapped by one is as predictable as in any generic vampire story.

com: Infamous poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this spellbinding blend of gothic imagination and documented fact. Wandering in the mountains of Greece, the supreme sensualist is drawn to the beauty of a mysterious fugitive slave; soon he is utterly entranced, and his fate is sealed.

Holland's first books were Gothic horror novels about vampires, set in various time periods throughout history

Holland's first books were Gothic horror novels about vampires, set in various time periods throughout history. His first novel, The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (1995), drew on his knowledge of Lord Byron from his university studies and recast the 19th-century poet as a vampire. It was re-titled Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron for the 1996 .

1995) Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (Lord of the Dead) (The first book in the Lord Byron series) A novel by Tom Holland

1995) Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron (Lord of the Dead) (The first book in the Lord Byron series) A novel by Tom Holland. Framed 19th-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world's most formidable vampire-entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil. Similar books by other authors.

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The vampire first appears in a story written by Byron's physician. Tom Holland received a double first from Cambridge. 2. The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron. Byron's reputation was such that his contemporaries read it as though the story approached the truth. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio. His scholarly style is pefect to reposition him as a writer of non-fiction as well as fiction. Holland, Tom. Published by Little, Brown & Company (1995). ISBN 10: 0316912271 ISBN 13: 9780316912273.

Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord . The brief prologue to Bride of Frankenstein includes Gavin Gordon as Byron, begging Mary Shelley to tell the rest of her Frankenstein story.

Tom Holland, in his 1995 novel The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron, romantically describes how Lord Byron became a vampire during his first visit to Greece - a fictional transformation that explains much of his subsequent behaviour towards family and friends, and finds support in quotes from Byron poems and the diaries of John Cam Hobhouse.

The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron Tom . Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster

Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic.

This story takes the form of a memoir revealing that Byron, the 18th-century poet and rake, was also the greatest vampire of his age. His journeys take him from Turkey to Venice and eventually back to modern London to meet the nemesis of his last surviving descendant.

Ferri - My name

It took me a few chapters to get properly sucked into this book. But once I had, there were sufficient unexpected plot twists and revelations to keep me turning the pages right up to the very end of the book.

The story is based on the premise that Lord Byron was/is a vampire who faked his own death and remains alive some 200 years later. The book is his life story told from his own perspective in the form of a monologue that he delivers to a frightened young woman. In this respect the book resembles Anne Rice's book Interview with the Vampire. There are also some similar themes to those found in Rice's books: grappling with one's conscience, self-disgust, the loneliness of immortality and so on - what we might call the basic existential issues of the bloodsucker. However, in my opinion, there is enough that is different, inventive and original in this book to make it a worthwhile read.

All vampire novels create their own set of rules and constraints that restrict a vampire's behaviour and way of life. I thought that rules that Holland's vampires labour under were novel and inventive, in some cases having especially cruel and tragic consequences. I won't go into detail because these gradually emerge as the book unfolds and I don't want to spoil it for you. The fact that Byron is a historical figure adds interest too, as the plot is (loosely) constrained to follow Byron's own life-story, and offers its own vampiric twist on various real events and relationships. So Byron's marriage, his numerous affairs, his self-imposed exhile from England, and his friendship with Percy Shelley are all woven into the plot of this story (we even get Holland's version of the evening of ghost stories that led Mary Shelley to write the novel Frankenstein).

So, a good, well-constructed, well-paced plot (with maybe a bit of a slow start) with numerous twists and turns, some inventive twists on the nature of vampiric condition, a bit of horror, some sex, some cruelty and some tragedy, quite a bit of death (well, a vampire has to eat after all), along with some vampire angst, plus a reworking of Byron's life story. If that sounds like your cup of tea, buy this book. I enjoyed it.

Ballardana

I sincerely enjoyed this book and am sad to be finished with it. It grabbed my attention from the first page and I never grew bored of it. The ending could have been so much better, though, if I am to be honest. Why do great authors always seem to just give up at the end of a story? A little more character development would have been nice as well (especially where the Shelleys were concerned).

Nevertheless, re-imagining Byron's life as a vampire and even "supporting" it with Byron's own poetry and biographical excerpts written by his friends? - Genius!!! And for that reason, along with the fact that it's the first book to keep me up long nights in quite a while, requires me to give this book a solid 5 stars. I can't wait to read more from this author!

Cerana

George Gordon, better known as Lord Byron, is one of England's most famous 'Romantic' poets. He was born in 1788, the son of John Byron and Catherine Gordon, but inherited his title and property of his great-uncle in 1798. He travelled extensively throughout Europe and Asia Minor - his trips abroad included Albania, Greece and Italy - particularly when he was in trouble at home. (He piled up debts, his marriage collapsed after little over a year and caused a great deal of scandal with a series of illicit love affairs - his romantic entanglement with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh, was particularly noteworthy. In fact, it is believed that Augusta's daughter was fathered by Byron, rather than by her husband). After his marriage to Anne Milbanke failed, Byron left England in 1816. He settled in Geneva for a while - where he became friendly with Percy and Mary Shelley - before moving on to Italy. In 1824, he sailed to Greece to help in their fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire. However, Byron caught and died from a fever before seeing any action.

"The Vampyre" tells Byron's life story, though from a slightly different angle. Byron, as it turns out, never actually died and the book sees him telling his story to Rebecca Carville. He covers what he feels to be the key period of his existence, beginning with the trip to Greece where he became a vardoulacha - a vampire - and finishing with his faked death in Greece. Although the story is (obviously) embellished, Holland clearly had done his research before writing this book. It features Byron's most notable love affairs, his friendships with John Hobhouse and the Shellys, even the feeble contribution of his rather pitiful doctor, Polidor. In all honesty, I enjoyed how Holland wove Byron's `real' life into the story more than the vampire angle...in fact, the thought of a vampire playing such a key role in the `creation' of Frankenstein was something I found quite funny. All in all, a very readable story, though it won't necessarily keep you awake at night.

Trash Obsession

I would recommend this book for anyone who enjoys Vampire novels. It is not for younger readers and has some adult language and scenarios, but it is a great read. Provocative and unique definitely.

Thofyn

The central story to this book makes for absorbing and entertaining reading: adaptation of the Byron history into a vampire novel. And Holland does it brilliantly.
However, the artifice that frames this "inner" story is appallingly written and pretty irrelevant. Clumsy and quite silly. The resolution of it utterly pointless.
But as a whole novel, I do recommend it. It's worth persisting with the initial dreadful writing to get to Byron's story. Which is a great read!

Tom Holland is a genius! This is a much better explanation of Byron's life and behaviour than any of the biographies I've read.

Peras

This is one of the best Vampyre novels I have read in a long time! Bought it, mine was destroyed, so I purchased it again on Amazon for my Library! Thanks!

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