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Published by Simon & Schuster, 2012
ISBN 10: 1439191565ISBN 13: 9781439191569
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Published by Simon & Schuster, 2013
ISBN 10: 1439191573ISBN 13: 9781439191576
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Published by Penguin, 2019
ISBN 10: 0141986603ISBN 13: 9780141986609
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Reading crease to spine. Clean, unmarked pages. "In his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII - controlling, paranoid, avaricious, with a Machiavellian charm and will to power. It is 1501. Henry VII has won the throne of England through luck, guile and ruthlessness. But for many he remains a usurper. Now, his elder son is to marry, in a wedding upon which the fate of the country, and the entire Tudor dynasty, will hang.".
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Published by Allen Lane., 2011
ISBN 10: 1846142024ISBN 13: 9781846142024
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Published by Penguin, 2012
ISBN 10: 014104053XISBN 13: 9780141040530
Seller: Hamelyn, Madrid, Spain
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Condition: Muy bueno. Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2011'He were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles' Sir Francis BaconIn his remarkable debut, Penn vividly recreates the dark and turbulent reign of Henry VII. He traces the transformation of a young, vulnerable boy, Prince Henry, into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VIII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. And at the book's heart is the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII - controlling, paranoid, avaricious, with a Machiavellian charm and will to power. EAN: 9780141040530 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Libros universitarios y de estudios superiores| Humanidades Título: Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor EnglandAutor: Thomas Penn Editorial: Penguin; 1st Edition (1 marzo 2012) Idioma: EN Páginas: 480 Formato: Tapa blanda Peso: 360 Año de publicación: 2012.
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2012
ISBN 10: 1439191565ISBN 13: 9781439191569
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2012
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards with a navy blue spine and silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments, Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Maps; Genealogical Table; Introduction; Prologue: Red Rose, Avenger of the White; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; and Index. Illustrated with Preliminary Page Maps and a Family Tree. "It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's throne. For many he remained a usurper, a false king. But Henry had a crucial asset: his queen and their children, the living embodiment of his hoped-for dynasty. Queen Elizabeth was a member of the House of York. Henry himself was from the House of Lancaster, so between them they united the warring parties that had fought the bloody century-long Wars of the Roses. Now their older son, Arthur, was about to marry a Spanish princess. On a cold November day sixteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon arrived in London for a wedding that would mark a triumphal moment in Henry's reign. In this remarkable book, Thomas Penn re-creates the story of the tragic, magnetic Henry VII - a controlling, paranoid, avaricious monarch who was entering the most perilous years of his long reign. Rich with drama and insight, Winter King is an astonishing story of pagentry, treachery, intrigue and incident - and the fraught, dangerous birth of Tudor England." - from the inner front jacket flap. "A tour de force." - The Spectator. "A definitive and accessible account of the reign of Henry VII that will alter our view not just of Henry, but of the country he dominated and corrupted, and of the dynasty he founded." - Philippa Gregory, The Guardian [UK]. "Stunning. This is not a new story - but in Penn's hands, it is a revelation. Penn has pulled off a rare feat: a brilliant and haunting evocation of the Tudor world, with irresistible echoes of the age of fear in which we now live." - Helen Castor, The Telegraph [UK]. "Winter King offers us the fullest, deepest, most compelling insight into the warped psychology of the Tudor dynasty's founder to have appeared since [Francis] Bacon wrote." - John Guy, Financial Times. "Succeeds brilliantly .[a] finely drawn portrait .Penn's deft turn of phrase superbly re-creates the drama and personalities of the court." - Tracy Borman, The Sunday TImes [London]. "An exceptionally stylish literary debut.[Winter King] should be the first port of call for anyone trying to understand England's most flagrant usurper since William the Conqueror." - Diarmaid MacCulloch, author.
Published by Penguin,, 2011
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Hardcover, octavo; purple boards with white spine titling, dark red endpapers; 448pp., colour plates. Minor wear; mildly toned text block edges. Otherwise near fine in like dustwrapper. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Henry VII can look a dull king, so dull that Thomas Penn's title omits his name. Shakespeare, drawn to the colour on either side of the reign, skipped it. His history plays depicted the dramatic conflicts of the wars of the roses, which Henry's accession after his victory at Bosworth in 1485 brought to an end. Shakespeare later turned to Henry's son and successor Henry VIII, whose rule brought marital sensation, renaissance spectacle and the reformation. The father's government was an exercise in discolouration. Its goals, relentlessly pursued until Henry's death in 1509, were the establishment of a royal house, the elimination of opposition, and the steady accumulation of power and wealth. Fittingly he dressed in expensive black. Yet in the hands of a narrator as accomplished as Penn, the reign acquires its own, troubling fascination. Two themes of his book preside: the permanent vulnerability of Henry's regime, and his ruthless methods of rule. His claim to the throne was tenuous and permanently contested. Only through the deaths of more obvious claimants, and after the accession of Richard III in 1483, when Henry was 26, did he become a leading candidate. Effectively an orphan, he had spent wretched years as a fugitive in Brittany. The reigns of his three predecessors were interrupted or foreshortened. Who could have expected that he would rule for 24 years, die in his bed, bequeath the first orderly succession to the throne for nearly a century, and found a famous dynasty? .Rarely was a father's reign so widely disparaged and disowned on the accession of the son. Thomas More hailed the end of "slavery" and the return of "liberty", "the end of sadness, the beginning of joy". He would learn better as the new reign unfolded. Penn notes something else about the paeans on the son's accession: later in the Tudor period, apologists for the regime would remember Henry VII as the restorer of national peace and unity, but in 1509 it was the king's death, not his rule, that was held to have ended a long era of dark instability. If Penn's interpretation can sometimes seem slanted, its exposition would be hard to over-praise. The expressive and evocative power of his writing, and the union of scholarship with artistry, are rare in modern historical writing." - Blair Worden.
Published by Lond. Allen Lane., 2011
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Or.bds. Dustjacket. 448pp. col plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Henry VII was the first monarch of the House of Tudor, after 14 years in exile in Brittany he returned in 1471 to take the throne, & eventually defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field.
Published by Allen Lane, 2011
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgium
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus. Winter King The Dawn of Tudor England Special Collection by Thomas Penn. Published by Allen Lane in 2011. Hardcover. It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's crown who through luck, guile and ruthlessness had managed to win the throne and stay on it for sixteen years. Although he built palaces, hosted jousts, gave out lavish presents and sent ambassadors across Europe, for many he remained a usurper, a false king. But Henry had a crucial asset: his queen a. Collectible item in very fine condition.