The Elizabethans - Hardcover

Wilson, A. N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374147442 ISBN 13: 9780374147440

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012

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A time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation, and political expansion, the Elizabethan age was also more remarkable than any other for the Technicolor personalities of its leading participants. Apart from the complex character of the Virgin Queen herself, A. N. Wilson's The Elizabethans follows the stories of Francis Drake, a privateer who not only defeated the Spanish Armada but also circumnavigated the globe with a drunken, mutinous crew and without reliable navigational instruments; political intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham; and Renaissance literary geniuses from Sir Philip Sidney to Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Most crucially, this was the age when modern Britain was born and established independence from mainland Europe—both in its resistance to Spanish and French incursions and in its declaration of religious liberty from the pope—and laid the foundations for the explosion of British imperial power and eventual American domination. An acknowledged master of the all-encompassing single-volume history, Wilson tells the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan era with all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling The Victorians, and with the wit and iconoclasm that are his trademarks.

Biografía del autor:

A. N. Wilson is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.

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• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0374147442
• ISBN 13: 9780374147440
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432