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Larman Alexander Larman Blazing Star

The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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Bloomsbury Publishing

2014

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He was 'THE WICKEDEST MAN ALIVE'. He went to Oxford University at the age of 12He slept with his first prostitute at 13He was an alcoholic by 14He was imprisoned in the Tower at 18He was acclaimed a war hero at 19He died of syphilis at the age of 33 He was English history's first celebrity. He was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Poet, dandy and libertine. BLAZING STAR is a compelling portrait of a remarkable and complex man, and of a cultural golden age that often spilled over into depravity.

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