Penguin Monarchs / George IV
King in Waiting
(Sprache: Englisch)
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad.
'The days are very long...
'The days are very long...
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch (Gebunden)
18.10 €
9 DeutschlandCard Punkte
sammeln
- Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
- Kostenlose Rücksendung
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „Penguin Monarchs / George IV “
Klappentext zu „Penguin Monarchs / George IV “
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned.
Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings.
Autoren-Porträt von Stella Tillyard
Stella Tillyard is one of Britain's best-selling historians, notably Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832, winner of the History Today Prize and the Fawcett Prize, which became a BBC/WGBH series, A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings, Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-98, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread prize, and a novel, Tides of War. She lives in London and Florence.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stella Tillyard
- 2019, 128 Seiten, 8 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 12,8 x 18,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141978856
- ISBN-13: 9780141978857
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
excellent... Tillyard offers insightful and balanced analysis of this ambivalent figure Jane Darcy Times Literary Supplement
Kommentar zu "Penguin Monarchs / George IV"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Penguin Monarchs / George IV“
| Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
|---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Penguin Monarchs / George IV".
Kommentar verfassen