Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008373256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A brilliant history of Prince Rupert of the Rhine from his penniless start, becoming a soldier in his teenage years, up to his life as King Charles I’s most famous and spectacular general.
Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008373256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A brilliant history of Prince Rupert of the Rhine from his penniless start, becoming a soldier in his teenage years, up to his life as King Charles I’s most famous and spectacular general.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008373256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
A brilliant history of Prince Rupert of the Rhine from his penniless start, becoming a soldier in his teenage years, up to his life as King Charles I’s most famous and spectacular general.
Killers of the King
Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620409127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Examines the lives of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant and the far-reaching consequences for them, those present at the trial, and England itself.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620409127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Examines the lives of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant and the far-reaching consequences for them, those present at the trial, and England itself.
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
Author: John Stubbs
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393344134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
"Stubbs [has] a storyteller's gift for atmosphere and drama."--Wall Street Journal
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393344134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
"Stubbs [has] a storyteller's gift for atmosphere and drama."--Wall Street Journal
To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape
Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008153655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008153655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
The Black Legend of Prince Rupert's Dog
Author: Mark Stoyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859898591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This compelling book from Mark Stoyle sets out to uncover the true history of Boy, the canine companion of Charles I's famous nephew, Prince Rupert. Like his master, Boy was held to possess dark powers and was elevated to celebrity status as a 'dog-witch' during the English Civil War of 1642-46. Many scholars have remarked upon the fantastical rumours which circulated about Prince Rupert and his dog, but no-one has investigated the source of these rumours, or explored how the supernatural element of the prince's public image developed over time. In this book, Mark Stoyle recounts the occult stories which centred upon Prince Rupert and his dog. He shows how those stories grew out of, and contributed to, the changing pattern of witch-belief in England during the Civil War. Shortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2012.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780859898591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This compelling book from Mark Stoyle sets out to uncover the true history of Boy, the canine companion of Charles I's famous nephew, Prince Rupert. Like his master, Boy was held to possess dark powers and was elevated to celebrity status as a 'dog-witch' during the English Civil War of 1642-46. Many scholars have remarked upon the fantastical rumours which circulated about Prince Rupert and his dog, but no-one has investigated the source of these rumours, or explored how the supernatural element of the prince's public image developed over time. In this book, Mark Stoyle recounts the occult stories which centred upon Prince Rupert and his dog. He shows how those stories grew out of, and contributed to, the changing pattern of witch-belief in England during the Civil War. Shortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2012.
Althorp: The Story of an English House
Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008373191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The definitive history of one of England’s greatest houses: Althorp, where for five hundred years the Spencer family have made their home.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008373191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The definitive history of one of England’s greatest houses: Althorp, where for five hundred years the Spencer family have made their home.
Never Anyone But You
Author: Rupert Thomson
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590519140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, PopMatters, and Sydney Morning Herald. The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy. In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As “sisters” they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail. Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dalí to André Breton, and produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism and threat of fascism, they leave Paris for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler’s occupying forces that will put their lives in jeopardy. Brilliantly imagined, profoundly thought-provoking, and ultimately heartbreaking, Never Anyone But You infuses life into a forgotten history as only great literature can.
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590519140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, PopMatters, and Sydney Morning Herald. The true story of a love affair between two extraordinary women becomes a literary tour deforce in this novel that recreates the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the two world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy. In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As “sisters” they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail. Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dalí to André Breton, and produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism and threat of fascism, they leave Paris for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler’s occupying forces that will put their lives in jeopardy. Brilliantly imagined, profoundly thought-provoking, and ultimately heartbreaking, Never Anyone But You infuses life into a forgotten history as only great literature can.
The Manticore
Author: Robertson Davies
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The second book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. The Manticore—the second book in the series after Fifth Business—follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help connect him to his past and the death of his father. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525505512
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The second book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. The Manticore—the second book in the series after Fifth Business—follows David Staunton, a man pleased with his success but haunted by his relationship with his larger-than-life father. As he seeks help through therapy, he encounters a wonderful cast of characters who help connect him to his past and the death of his father. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Leaguer of Lathom
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Cavaliers and Roundheads
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007394713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007394713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.