Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War - Rilegato

Nicolson, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0061154318 ISBN 13: 9780061154317

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2008

Riassunto

Traces four generations of the Pembroke family from the 1520s to the 1640s, discussing how their loyalties were brought into question in the face of the crown's growing power and the circumstances that eventually forced the mid-seventeenth-century's Earl of Pembroke to rebel against the monarchy. 40,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“A moving account of the Elizabethan golden age, retold through the varying fortunes of the Pembroke family, and a tour de force. . . . A brilliantly imaginative and beautifully written coup of scholarship.” (The Observer (London))

“A superb book, beautifully written, subtle, passionate, questioning, mind-altering and wise.” (Daily Mail (London))

“Absorbing. . . . Wonderful, lyrical and contemplative.” (The Guardian)

“This is a rich, informative and original book.” (Noel Malcolm, Daily Telegraph (London))

“Beautifully written and finely balanced. . . . A disarmingly readable contribution to the history of ideas. . . . An elegant, thoughtful, imaginative book about the need for dreams and the ugliness of modernisation. . . . His book will give abiding pleasure.” (Sunday Times (London))

L'autore:

Adam Nicols on is the author of Seamanship, God's Secretaries, and Seize the Fire. He has won both the Somerset Maugham and William Heinemann awards, and he lives with his family at Sissinghurst Castle in England.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061154318
• ISBN 13: 9780061154317
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 306