{"product_id":"the-fall-of-the-house-of-byron","title":"The Fall of the House of Byron","description":"In the early eighteenth century  Newstead Abbey was among the most admired aristocratic homes in England. It was the abode of William  4th Baron Byron - a popular amateur composer and artist - and his teenage wife Frances. But by the end of the century  the building had become a crumbling and ill-cared-for ruin. Surrounded by wreckage of his inheritance  the 4th Barons dissipated son and heir William  5th Baron Byron - known to history as the Wicked Lord - lay on his deathbed alongside a handful of remaining servants and amidst a thriving population of crickets.  This was the home that a small  pudgy boy of ten from Aberdeen - who the world would later come to know as Lord Byron  the Romantic poet  soldier  and adventurer - would inherit in 1798. His family  he would come to learn  had in recent decades become known for almost unfathomable levels of scandal and impropriety  from elopement  murder  and kidnapping to adultery  coercion  and thrilling near-death experiences at sea. Just as it had shocked the society of Georgian London  the outlandish and scandalous story of the Byrons - and the myths that began to rise around it - would his influence his life and poetry for posterity.  The Fall of the House of Byron follows the fates of Lord Byrons ancestors over three generations in a drama that begins in rural Nottinghamshire and plays out in the gentlemens clubs of Georgian London  amid tempests on far-flung seas  and in the glamour of pre-revolutionary France. A compelling story of a prominent and controversial characters  it is a sumptuous family portrait and an electrifying work of social history.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44910352990261,"sku":"ByrdShop_1473664306","price":56.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1473664306.jpg?v=1768213726","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-fall-of-the-house-of-byron","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}