The King's Fool

A Compelling Novel of Will Somers, Court Jester to Henry VIII

Margaret Campbell Barnes

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Почти отлично - леко захабен външен вид, неизползвана книга.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Sphere Books Limited
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 1977 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 300
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Исторически романи
Тегло (гр.):: 170
Ширина (мм):: 110
Височина (мм):: 180
Дебелина (мм):: 19
ISBN:: 0722122101

LAUGH AT YOUR PERIL... Few men were closer to King Henry VIII than his jester, Will Somers. The traditional licence of the Court fool permitted him a degree of familiarity undreamed of by even the most favoured courtiers. But because of this very freedom, the position Will occupied could not have been more perilous. His ready wit and gift for mime won him a place at Henry’s side, his understanding and affection drew him into the heart of the Tudor family. Yet always he trod a dangerous path between the monarch’s generosity and his sudden,violent temper... About the Author Margaret Campbell Barnes lived from 1891 to 1962. She was the youngest of ten children born into a happy, loving family in Victorian England. She grew up in the Sussex countryside, and was educated at small private schools in London and Paris. Margaret was already a published writer when she married Peter, a furniture salesman, in 1917. Over the next twenty years a steady stream of short stories and verse appeared over her name (and several noms de plume) in leading English periodicals of the time, Windsor, London, Quiver, and others. Later, Margaret’s agents, Curtis Brown Ltd, encouraged her to try her hand at historical novels. Between 1944 and 1962 Margaret wrote ten historical novels. Many of these were bestsellers, book club selections, and translated into foreign editions. Between World Wars I and II Margaret and Peter brought up two sons, Michael and John. In August 1944, Michael, a lieutenant in the Royal Armoured Corps, was killed in his tank, in the Allied advance from Caen to Falaise in Normandy. Margaret and Peter grieved terribly the rest of their lives. Glimpses of Michael shine through in each of Margaret’s later novels. In 1945 Margaret bought a small thatched cottage on the Isle of Wight, off England’s south coast. It had at one time been a smuggler’s cottage. But to Margaret it was a special place in which to recover the spirit and carry on writing. And write she did. All together, over two million copies of Margaret Campbell Barnes’s historical novels have been sold worldwide.

Ключови думи: книги на английски език, исторически романи