Download or read book The Scandal of the Season written by Sophie Gee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale based on the early eighteenth-century scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" finds a sickly and impoverished Alexander Pope gaining entry into high society and closely following a forbidden affair between the rakish Lord Petre and the coquettish Arabella. A first novel. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.