Scandal of the Season

by Sophie Gee

Genres: General Fiction; Historical Fiction

Synopsis

A tale based on the early eighteenth-century scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" finds a sickly and impoverished Alexander Pope gaining entry into high society and closely following a forbidden affair between the rakish Lord Petre and the coquettish Arabella. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.

Release date: July 19, 2007

Publisher: Scribner

Print pages: 352