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Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War de Adam Nicolson

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

Autor Adam Nicolson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 noi 2009
In Quarrel with the King, Adam Nicolson, the bestselling author of God’s Secretaries and Seize the Fire, explores questions of loyalty, power, betrayal, and rebellion, as witnessed through the life and times of one of England’s richest and most influential families. Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s to 1650—Quarrel with the King tells the story of four generations of the Pembroke family, following their glamorous trajectory across 130 years of change, ambition, resistance, and war, culminating in rebellion against the king.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780061154324
ISBN-10: 0061154326
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial

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Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s through 1650—Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. With vivid color and fascinating detail, acclaimed historian Adam Nicolson recounts the story of a century-long power struggle between England's richest family and the English Crown—a fascinating study of divided loyalties, corruption, rights and privilege, and all the ambiguities involved in the exercise and maintenance of power and status.

Recenzii

“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)

Notă biografică

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.