The Rape of the Lock

by Alexander Pope
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‘[It is] a whimsical piece of work ... a sort of writing very like tickling’ Alexander Pope

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE GEEA 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…Pope’s mock-epic is the sharp and witty tale of the most famous bad hair day in the history of literature.

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"Brilliant... triumphant. Never has so great a poem emerged from so trivial a cause" - Peter Ackroyd

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