William Shakespeare:King Richard III
- signiertes Exemplar 2005, ISBN: 9781236716491
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HarperCollins, 2005 Near-new condition. SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED by author in book front: "To Susan with best wishes - Lita-Rose Betcherman". NO other writing or marks inside book. … Mehr…
HarperCollins, 2005 Near-new condition. SIGNED/AUTOGRAPHED by author in book front: "To Susan with best wishes - Lita-Rose Betcherman". NO other writing or marks inside book. Nicely illustrated. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $36.95. Number line: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. NO tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Dustcover is clean and bright, shows slight wear (NO tears). 384 pages. From Publishers Weekly The lives of Dorothy and Lucy Percy, daughters of the early 17th-century earl of Northumberland, reflect striking contrasts in early modern marriage. Lucy married a much older rising star of the Jacobean court, later Lord Carlisle, and had only one short-lived child; centering her life on the royal court, she became mistress of the duke of Buckingham and a confidante of Queen Henrietta Maria. Dorothy married the later earl of Leicester, raising 12 children in the relative obscurity of the countryside, where she managed estates and campaigned for her husband's career. Both sisters were involved in the politics of the Civil War, when each precariously balanced family, finances and loyalties in order to survive. Canadian historian Betcherman dwells particularly on Lucy's charms, as sources praising her are abundant. The author is less generous to Dorothy, trusting too much in the sometimes bitter assessments of her husband and offering no hint of whether his taking loans with interest from his wife was unusual. Still, personalities, fashion, intrigue and even parliamentary and military history blend to provide a multifaceted entry into a period not always accessible to general readers of history. Copyright © Reed Business Information, From Booklist: Canadian historian Betcherman combines historical, sociological, and cultural insight in this fascinating dual biography of two seventeenth-century British sisters. Born into the nobility, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, the beautiful daughters of the Earl of Northumberland, each made what was considered a good catch in the often-precarious marriage market. Married to a Jacobean courtier, Lucy spent much of her life at court, wielding power and influence behind the scenes and dazzling a succession of prominent lovers, including the notorious Duke of Buckingham. Dorothy's path, though much less public, was equally compelling. The wife of the Earl of Leicester, she raised a huge brood of children, managed multiple country estates, and lobbied tirelessly on behalf of her diplomat husband. The action really heats up during the English civil war, when both sisters made political and personal decisions that profoundly affected the course of their individual and collective family futures. Margaret Flanagan. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near-Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., HarperCollins, 2005, U.S.A: Delacorte Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. The book is near fine but the plastic sheath used to protect the graphics, has wrinkled. there is very light shelf wear. This is a mystical romance, a English Lord is cursed to find no happiness till he marries th person selected by a cross, it turns out to be a baby, so he ignres and marries, nothing turns out good, til he becomes a widower and finds the beautiful and fully grown woman he is destined to love. How they get there is a trip you will love. All of our book wrapped in sturdy packaging or padded envelopes, plus they are electronically tracked within the USA, Delacorte Press, 1994, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980. The first full length biography of Lord Mountbatten by an author who travelled with him far and wide and interviewed many members of the Royal Family. The last godson of Queen Victoria, he lost his title at age 17 and later married Edwina Ashley a millionairess. Numerous photographs and genealogical charts to endpapers.l. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980, Paperback. New. As Read On BBC Radio 4. A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time. (Amanda Foreman English feminist). Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar. Both Marys became famous writers, fell in love with brilliant but impossible men, and were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their position in society and thought deeply about how we should live. They also broke every rigid convention thrust upon them: Wollstonecraft chased pirates in Scandinavia and sailed to Paris to witness the Revolution. Shelley eloped in a fishing boat with a married man and faced down bandits in Naples. Wollstonecraft proclaimed that women's liberty should matter to everyone. Not only did Wollstonecraft pen the landmark book, The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, her work ignited Romanticism, inspiring a whole new generation of writers, including her daughter. At just nineteen years old, Mary travelled around Italy with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron, and there wrote Frankenstein. Having pushed the boundaries of the literary form, she went on to become the editor of her husband's poetry - a feat of scholarship that established his posthumous reputation. For the first time, Romantic Outlaws brings together a pair of visionary women who should have shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literary and feminist legacy. This is inventive, illuminating, involving biography at its best., Paperback. New. It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's most dazzling heirloom made headlines - and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Now it is 1951: a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new young Lord Attenbury - grandson of Lord Peter's first client - seeks his help again, this time to prove who owns the gigantic emerald that Wimsey last saw in 1921. It will be the most intricate and challenging mystery he has ever faced ...Since the publication of A Presumption of Death, which was set in 1941 in the wartime English countryside, readers have been eagerly asking for this story - a wholly original and utterly engrossing new detective adventure., RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 48 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.Excerpt: . . . satisfied, dear God, with our true blood, Which, as Thou knowst, unjustly must be spilt. RATCLIFF Make haste; the hour of death is expiate. RIVERS Come, Grey;--come, Vaughan;--let us here embrace. Farewell, until we meet again in heaven. Exeunt. SCENE IV. London. A Room in the Tower BUCKINGHAM, STANLEY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP of ELY, RATCLIFF, LOVEL, and others sitting at a table: Officers of the Council attending. HASTINGS Now, noble peers, the cause why we are met Is to determine of the coronation. In Gods name speak, --when is the royal day BUCKINGHAM Are all things ready for that royal time STANLEY Thery are, and wants but nomination. ELY To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day. BUCKINGHAM Who knows the lord protectors mind herein Who is most inward with the noble duke ELY Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind. BUCKINGHAM We know each others faces: for our hearts, He knows no more of mine than I of yours; Or I of his, my lord, than you of mine. -- Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love. HASTINGS I thank his grace, I know he loves me well; But for his purpose in the coronation I have not sounded him, nor he deliverd His gracious pleasure any way therein: But you, my honourable lords, may name the time; And in the dukes behalf Ill give my voice, Which, I presume, hell take in gentle part. ELY In happy time, here comes the duke himself. Enter GLOSTER. GLOSTER My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow. I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded. BUCKINGHAM Had you not come upon your cue, my lord, William Lord Hastings had pronouncd your part, -- I mean, your voice, --for crowning of the king. GLOSTER Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder; His lordship knows me well and loves me well. -- My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn I saw good strawberries in your garden there: I do beseech you send for some of them. ELY Marry, and will, my. . . 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