The Fifth Queen Trilogy - Brossura

Ford, Ford Madox

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ISBN 10: 1541057902 ISBN 13: 9781541057906

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Riassunto

Ford Madox Ford was a prolific English novelist and poet in the early 20th century. Ford wrote the best-selling novel The Good Soldier, as well as the Fifth Queen trilogy and the Parade's End series. The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court is the first novel in the trilogy. The trilogy centers around Katharine Howard who became the fifth queen of King Henry VIII. This book tells of how Katharine gained the attention of King Henry VIII. Privy Seal: His Last Venture is the second novel in the Fifth Queen trilogy. The book details a battle for power between Katharine, Throckmorton, and Cromwell. The Fifth Queen Crowned is the last novel in the trilogy. This riveting book details Katharine's demise.

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About the Author

About the Author - London-born Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) is remembered for his novel 'The Good Soldier' and 'The Fifth Queen' trilogy among many other fine books. He was a poet and journal editor who helped develop literature in the early in 20th-century. Ford was born in Wimbledon to Catherine Madox Brown and Francis Hueffer, a music critic for The Times newspaper. He initially wrote under the name Ford Madox Hueffer in honour of his grandfather, painter Ford Madox Brown. He was a contemporary of authors Henry James and H.G. Wells and spent several years teaching at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan. He died in Deauville, France, at the age of 65. 'The Good Soldier' (1915) is set just before World War I. In real life, the author was involved in British war propaganda and worked for the War Propaganda Bureau, managed by C. F. G. Masterman, along with Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, John Galsworthy, Hilaire Belloc and Gilbert Murray. Ford wrote two propaganda books and enlisted in the Welch Regiment of the British Army in 1915. Ford wrote dozens of novels as well as essays, poetry, memoirs and literary criticism. He and Joseph Conrad worked on three novels: The Inheritors (1901), Romance (1903) and The Nature of a Crime (1924. His best known work was 'The Fifth Queen' trilogy (1906–1908), which Conrad termed "the swan song of historical romance."

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1541057902
• ISBN 13: 9781541057906
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 428