Sześć żon Henryka VIII
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
8386379049
Publish date: 1994
Publisher: RACHOCKI I S-KA s.c.
Pages no: 550
Edition language: Polski
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
European History,
World History,
16th Century,
Historical
I've been on a bit of a Tudor kick recently, what with this, Alison Weir's Innocent Traitor (the life of lady Jane Grey) and a CJ Sansom detective piece set at the courting of Catherine Parr. They've all tied together quite neatly. It's a long old book, but filled with 6 very different characters. A...
I knew I would finish this book today and it has been such an interesting book!The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser takes its reader through each wife, how they overlapped and the events surrounding their marriage to King Henry VIII. I wanted to read this book as I am currently about 3 episodes...
An excellent read.
Oh, the wives. Not all at once, though one does wonder. It speaks loads for Fraser’s writing that she seems to like both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. She doesn’t demonize either women, and undoubtedly this book, the first I read about the wives, is where my feelings about wives one and tw...
After having read several books focusing on the individual wives of Henry VIII, I was looking for a more complete sequence of events. In this book, Antonia Fraser provides the reader with that timeline. Another major difference in this book for me was the emphasis the author put on reviewing the myt...
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