Elizabeth, the Queen: An intriguing deep dive into Queen Elizabeth I’s life as a woman and a monarch - Couverture souple

Weir, Alison

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ISBN 10 : 0099524252 ISBN 13 : 9780099524250

Editeur : Vintage, 2009

Synopsis

England, 1536. Home to the greatest, most glittering court in English history. But beneath the dazzling facade lies treachery ...Elizabeth Tudor is daughter to Henry VIII, the most powerful king England has ever known. She is destined to ascend the throne, and deferred to as the King's heiress, but that all changes when her mother Anne Boleyn - Henry's great passion and folly - is executed for treason. Elizabeth 's life alters in a heartbeat. A pawn in the savage game of Tudor power politics, she is disinherited, declared a bastard, and left with only her quick wits to rely on for her very existence. But Elizabeth is determined to survive, to foil those who want to destroy her, or who are determined to use her as a puppet for their own lethal ambition, and to reclaim her birthright ...

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In her highly praised The Six Wives of Henry VIII and its sequel, Children of England, Alison Weir examined the private lives of the early Tudor kings and queens, and chronicled the childhood and youth of one of England's most successful monarchs, Elizabeth I.

This book begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign. Elizabeth is portrayed as both a woman and a queen, an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. Alison Weir writes of Elizabeth's intriguing, long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, of her dealings - sometimes comical, sometimes poignant - with her many suitors, of her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots, and of her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior.

Rich in detail, vivid and colourful, this book comes as close as we shall ever get to knowing what Elizabeth I was like as a person.

Revue de presse :

"Excellent...intricate and absorbing...An elegant, shrewd and wonderfully vivacious book." (Miranda Seymour Sunday Times)

"An excellent account of the greatest of England's remarkable great queens." (Kathryn Hughes Daily Telegraph)

"An informative and entertaining biography." (Peter Ackroyd The Times)

"Full, fair and judicious and particularly good on Elizabeth's private life." (Paul Johnson Literary Review)

"Fantastic and fascinating! Alison Weir's great talent is to pack in details without losing readability...highly recommended" (The Bookfiends Kingdom)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0099524252
• ISBN 13: 9780099524250
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544