Winter King – The Dawn of Tudor England (Signed and dated)
Inbunden bok. Allen Lane. First edition, signed and dated by the author uppl. 2011. 462 sidor.
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Winter King – The Dawn of Tudor England (Signed and dated)
Thomas Penn
Observera att denna bok är på engelska. Please note that this book is in English.
The book is a hardcover with dustjacket. It is new, unread and in perfect condition, except the usual slight toning to the pages.
Protected in a clear plastic wrapper.
Published by Allen Lane in 2011.
First edition, signed, dated and with "Best Wishes" greeting on the title page
ISBN 9781846142024
The only signed copy I could find on the Internet, costs £ 40 plus shipping from the UK.
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Winter King tells the unforgettable story of Henry VII's time as King, and the fraught and unstable birth of Tudor England. Rich with incident and drama, filled with wonderfully drawn characters, it is a stunning history of pageantry, surveillance, the thirst for glory - and the first Tudor king.
'He was a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles', Sir Francis Bacon.
It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's crown who through luck, guile and ruthlessness had managed to win the throne and stay on it for sixteen years. Although he built palaces, hosted jousts, gave out lavish presents and sent ambassadors across Europe, for many he remained a usurper, a false king.
But Henry had a crucial asset: his queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Now, in what would be the crowning glory of his reign, his elder son would marry a great Spanish princess. On a cold November day this girl, the sixteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon, arrived in London for a wedding upon which the fate of England would hinge.
In his remarkable debut, historian Thomas Penn recreates an England which is both familiar and very strange - a country that seems medieval yet modern, in which honour and chivalry mingle with espionage, realpolitik, high finance and corruption. It is the story of the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at its heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII - controlling, paranoid, avaricious, with a Machiavellian charm and will to power.
Format: 24x16x4 cm, 462 pages.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781846142024
- Titel
- Winter king : the dawn of Tudor England
- Författare
- Penn, Thomas.
- Förlag
- London : Allen Lane
- Utgivningsår
- 2011
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-428) and index.
Prologue: Red rose, avenger of the white -- Blood and roses -- Not a drop of doubtful royal blood -- Richmond -- He seeks in all places to destroy me -- Now must you supply the mother's part also -- Change of worlds -- No sure way -- Council learned -- Our second treasure -- Null and void -- This day came De la Pole -- New heaven, new earth -- A state of avarice -- Extraordinary justice -- Courage to be bold -- Savage harshness made complete -- The art of dying -- Rich, ferocious, thirsting for glory.
