"The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman" by Charles Dickens is a poem from the early 1800s that tells an exciting story with romance and old stories. It is about love, being captured, and how tricky love can be, like many stories from that time. The poem follows Lord Bateman, a rich man who travels far away but gets stuck in Turkey. While he's locked up, the captor's kind daughter falls in love with him and helps him until he goes home. After seven years, she looks for him, but he is marrying someone else. Because Lord Bateman truly loves her, he decides to take care of both women. He has enough wealth and social standing to make it all work in the end, making the poem funny and showing how silly and also great love can be.
The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
By Charles Dickens
A captured lord juggles two loves thanks to his wealth resolving a long journey of love, betrayal, and comedic resolution.
Genres
Released
2005-04-14
Formats
epub
mobi
epub (images)
mobi (images)
epub3 (images)
txt
Free Download
Summary
About the AuthorCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
Total Reviews
10.0k
Total reviews from Goodreads may change
More Like This
Explore books similar to the one you're viewing
The Dalby Bear, and Other Ballads
By George Borrow
How Lisa Loved the King
By George Eliot
The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo
By Thomas Nash
Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads
By George Borrow
Old Love Stories Retold
By Richard Le Gallienne
The Naughty Man; or, Sir Thomas Brown Love, Courtship and Marriage in High Life. A Poetical Satire
By Frank Chapman Bliss
More by This Author
Discover other books written by the same author
Holly berries from Dickens
By Charles Dickens
Mr. Pickwick's Christmas Being an Account of the Pickwickians' Christmas at the Manor Farm, of the Adventures There; the Tale of the Goblin Who Stole a Sexton, and of the Famous Sports on the Ice
By Charles Dickens
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
By Charles Dickens
A Child's History of England
By Charles Dickens
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
By Charles Dickens
Miscellaneous Papers
By Charles Dickens
Related by Category
Discover books in the same genre or category
Harlem shadows : $b the poems of Claude McKay
By Claude McKay
Careless Jane and Other Tales
By Katharine Pyle
Songs of a Sourdough
By Robert W. (Robert William) Service
A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse
By Amy Levy
The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell
By Dante Alighieri
The House of Dust: A Symphony
By Conrad Aiken