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Elizabeth & Essex: A Tragic History
de Lytton Strachey
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- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable
- Librería
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Chatto and Windus, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. First Edition Thus. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Minor tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have mild rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends as well.
Sinopsis
One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes, Strachey portrays the Queen's and the Earl's compelling attraction for on another, their impassioned disagreements, and their mutual contest for power, which led to a final, tragic confrontation. Here we also have superb portraits of influential people of the time: Francis Bacon, Robert Cecil, Walter Raleigh, and other figures of the court who struggled to assert themselves in a kingdom that was primarily defined by her sovereign, and so now seen through history's lens as Elizabethan England.
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- World of Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Elizabeth & Essex: A Tragic History
- Autor
- Lytton Strachey
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Chatto and Windus
- Fecha de publicación
- 1932
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