A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by James William Johnson

A Profane Wit: The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

James William Johnson

478 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, he shocked his pious...

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