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  • Stories from the Darker Side of Love

    Tales of broken families and tangled relationships in Tudor England

    par J. S. Block ...
    The last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I died in 1603. Her father, Henry VIII had lived from 1491 to 1547. Yet even centuries later, here we are in the midst of what has can only be described as a major revival of interest in the Tudors. It is difficult to attend a movie theater or to watch television without, sooner or later, running into a film or series about one or another of this most famous ... En savoir plus

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  • The Lady in the Tower

    The Fall of Anne Boleyn

    par Alison Weir ...
    From one of the world's foremost popular historians, a detailed and intricate portrait of the last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history.The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was unprecedented in the annals of English history. It was sensational in its day, and has exerted endless fascination over the minds of ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $11.99 CAD Maintenant $7.99 CAD

  • Wedlock

    The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary EleanorBowes, Countess of Strathmore

    par Wendy Moore ...
    A cinematic and thrilling true story exploring the life and catastrophic marriage of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore—“a tale of wealth, status, and privilege, laced with lust, greed, [and] pride” (The Times)“Spectacular . . . Serious, perceptive, thoughtful and—by no means least—compulsively readable.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostWith the death of her fabulously wealthy coal ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Richard III and the Murder in the Tower

    par Peter A Hancock ...
    Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews (the 'Princes in the Tower') in order to usurp the throne of England. Since Tudor times he has been painted as the 'black legend,' the murderous uncle. However, the truth is much more complicated and interesting. Rather than looking at all the killings Richard III did not commit, this book focuses on the one execution for which we know that he was ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lady Gregory's Toothbrush

    par Colm Toibín ...
    'It is the battle between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.' So wrote Augusta Gregory to W.B. Yeats; she was referring to the riots at the Abbey Theatre over The Playboy of the Western World, and she knew which side she was on. In this remarkable biographical essay, Colm Toibin examines the contradictions that defined the position of this essential figure in Irish cultural history. ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Daughter's Love

    Thomas More & His Dearest Meg

    par John Guy ...
    The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a "brilliantly observed" dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter ( The New York Times).Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been largely airbrushed out ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Tudor Murder Files

    par James Moore ...
    "Collates the most shocking killings and puzzling murder mysteries from the sixteenth century in fascinating detail" — Gazette & HeraldIn the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, this unique true crime guide, The Tudor Murder Files, reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was.From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Roaring Girls

    The extraordinary lives of history’s unsung heroines

    par Holly Kyte ...
    ‘Extraordinary’ Woman&HomeA Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, ‘masculine’ when she should be ‘feminine’.Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Birthright

    The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped

    par A. Roger Ekirch ...
    The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped.In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Ireland’s mighty house of Annesley was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America as an indentured servant. Only after twelve more years did “Jemmy” Annesley at last escape, returning to Ireland to ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    par Janet Todd ...
    'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Jonathan Swift

    His Life and His World

    par Leo Damrosch ...

    $38.99 CAD