Isabel the Fair

The Passionate Novel of Isabel Capet, Wife of Edward II

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:: 287
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Исторически романи
Тегло (гр.):: 156
Ширина (мм):: 110
Височина (мм):: 180
Дебелина (мм):: 18
ISBN:: 0722122241

SHE WAS HIS BRIDE- BUT NOT HIS LOVE Men called her Isabel the Fair in homage to her great beauty and when she married Edward п of England it seemed a perfect match. But the handsome Plantagenet king had room in his heart for no one but his favourite, Piers Gaveston,and Isabel found herself cast aside for the young Gascon lord. Edwards love for the young man turned Isabel against him and brought England to civil war. Finally, the beautiful girl became a vengeful woman whom they called the‘She-Wolf’, and with her masterful lover, Roger Mortimer, she invaded the disordered country to seize power from the king... 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.

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