The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
Autor Thomas Pennen Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2020
'A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless decades' Hilary Mantel
The gripping new history by the author of the acclaimed bestsellerWinter King
It is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning, a teenage boy wins a battle in the Welsh marches, and claims the crown. He is Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York...
Thomas Penn's brilliant new telling of the wars of the roses takes us inside a conflict that fractured the nation for more than three decades. During this time, the house of York came to dominate England. At its heart were three charismatic brothers - Edward, George and Richard - who became the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty. Together, they looked invincible..
But with Edward's ascendancy the brothers began to turn on one another, unleashing a catastrophic chain of rebellion, vendetta, fratricide, usurpation and regicide. The brutal end came at Bosworth Field in 1485, with the death of the youngest, then Richard III, at the hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor.
The story of a warring family unable to sustain its influence and power,The Brothers Yorkbrings to life a dynasty that could have been as magnificent as the Tudors. Its tragedy was that, in the space of one generation, it destroyed itself.
'The Brothers York is savage, exciting, blisteringly good.' - Jessie Childs, author ofGod's Traitors
'An epic orgy of colour and character.' - Leanda de Lisle,The Times
'Superb ... The tragedy and brutality of the Wars of the Roses jumps out from every page of Penn's book.' - Kate Maltby,Financial Times
'Thrilling, pacy ... Brings a novelist's verve to his telling of events.' - John Gallagher,The Guardian
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780718197285
ISBN-10: 0718197283
Pagini: 688
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0718197283
Pagini: 688
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Thomas
Penn's
bestsellingWinter
Kingwas
a
Book
of
the
Year
in
theDaily
Telegraph,Guardian,Sunday
TimesandBBC
History,
and
was
awarded
the
H.
W.
Fisher
Best
First
Biography
Prize.
He
has
a
PhD
in
late
fifteenth
and
early
sixteenth
century
history
from
Clare
College,
Cambridge,
and
writes
for,
among
others,
theGuardianand
theLondon
Review
of
Books.
Recenzii
A
gripping,
complex
and
sensational
story,
told
with
calm
narrative
command.
It's
a
story
we
think
we
know
-
but
most
accounts
leave
the
personnel
as
frozen
as
portraits
in
stained
glass.
Here,
the
three
York
brothers
spring
to
ferocious
life,
and
you
need
strong
nerves
to
meet
them.With
insight
and
skill,
Penn
cuts
through
the
thickets
of
history
to
find
the
heart
of
these
heartless
decades.
The Brothers Yorkis not just a magisterial work of sublime scholarship,it's a pure page-turner. I couldn't put it down. The wonderful thing about Thomas Penn is that he makes some of the most familiar stories in English history feel fresh and exciting.
An immense, sinewy political thriller. Thomas Penn has the enviable skill of presenting hard research with a light touch.The Brothers Yorkissavage, exciting, blisteringly good.
An epic orgy of colour and character: there are soldiers and townsmen, poets and pirates, battlefield massacres and hidden murders ... One of the great strengths of Brothers York is the attention paid to the European stage.
A rip-roaring account... Pacy, engrossing and evocative in its details (of feasts and jousts as well as battles and diplomatic skulduggery), it engages the reader's emotions as well as intellect.
Superb. The tragedy and brutality of the Wars of the Roses jumps out from every page of Penn's book ...An impressive and engaging read.
Thrilling, pacy ...Brings a novelist's verve to his telling of events... Penn's history of betrayal, backstabbing and paranoia strikes notes that still resonate today.
Fresh and lively narrative swagger... Peppered with delightful, telling anecdotes and details. Some are comical and others grisly, but all breathe life into their subject ... Perhaps the greatest strength of Penn's entertaining book is his understanding of the warping effects of European affairs on English domestic stability.
Epic, racy, breaks new ground ... Penn combines a keen sense of time, place, circumstance and anecdote with a firm grasp of human psychology, of the macabre, the comic and the tragic, and - perhaps as important as any of these - an instinct for the rhythm of a sentence.
An exceptionally detailed and absorbing narrative history with a gallantly sustained human touch... Penn's Yorkist England is an excellent place to take an exciting, and instructive, holiday from 2019.
Gripping, richly contextualised and meticulously researched ... a vital corrective to the ongoing, polarising battle over Richard III's legacy.
The Brothers Yorkis not just a magisterial work of sublime scholarship,it's a pure page-turner. I couldn't put it down. The wonderful thing about Thomas Penn is that he makes some of the most familiar stories in English history feel fresh and exciting.
An immense, sinewy political thriller. Thomas Penn has the enviable skill of presenting hard research with a light touch.The Brothers Yorkissavage, exciting, blisteringly good.
An epic orgy of colour and character: there are soldiers and townsmen, poets and pirates, battlefield massacres and hidden murders ... One of the great strengths of Brothers York is the attention paid to the European stage.
A rip-roaring account... Pacy, engrossing and evocative in its details (of feasts and jousts as well as battles and diplomatic skulduggery), it engages the reader's emotions as well as intellect.
Superb. The tragedy and brutality of the Wars of the Roses jumps out from every page of Penn's book ...An impressive and engaging read.
Thrilling, pacy ...Brings a novelist's verve to his telling of events... Penn's history of betrayal, backstabbing and paranoia strikes notes that still resonate today.
Fresh and lively narrative swagger... Peppered with delightful, telling anecdotes and details. Some are comical and others grisly, but all breathe life into their subject ... Perhaps the greatest strength of Penn's entertaining book is his understanding of the warping effects of European affairs on English domestic stability.
Epic, racy, breaks new ground ... Penn combines a keen sense of time, place, circumstance and anecdote with a firm grasp of human psychology, of the macabre, the comic and the tragic, and - perhaps as important as any of these - an instinct for the rhythm of a sentence.
An exceptionally detailed and absorbing narrative history with a gallantly sustained human touch... Penn's Yorkist England is an excellent place to take an exciting, and instructive, holiday from 2019.
Gripping, richly contextualised and meticulously researched ... a vital corrective to the ongoing, polarising battle over Richard III's legacy.