The Wonder of All the Gay World: A Novel of the Life and Loves of Robert Burns

This book shows the poet during his comparatively brief hour of glory, the hero of Scotland's capital, feted by the nobility and encircled by the literary celebrities of that golden age when Edinburgh was, Paris excepted, the intellectual capital of the world. Here is narrated the story of the infatuations which assailed that tempestuous and tragically susceptible heart, loves which ranged from his dalliance with Peggy Cameron to the passionate interlude with Clarinda, inspirer of immortal lyrics.