Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War de Stubbs, John - 2011-02-24

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Hardback. Very Good.

Penguin Books, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Penguin Books, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Viking, 2011. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9780670917532

Viking, 2011. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust Jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780670917532

Penguin / Viking. Used - Like New. 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Dust jacket is fine.

Penguin / Viking. Used - Very Good. 2011. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Viking, 2011. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor bumping to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to edges. 549pp. A study of cavaliers-in-the-making from early privilege through Continental warfare, and back to their urban recreations - an account of all their campaigns, through peacetime, civil war and exile and their part in a national disaster.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Viking, 2011 John Stubbs's Reprobates charts the rise and fall of the Cavaliers before, during and after the English Civil War. From disastrous foreign forays to syphilitic poets, from political intriguing to ambitious young playwrights keen to curry favour with the king, John Stubbs brings alive the vibrant cast of characters that were at the centre of the English Civil War. Stubbs shows the reader just how the country was brought to one of the most destructive moments in its history. 'Dashing and daring, colourful, subtle and provocative . . . stuffed almost to bursting-point with character and incident. Feasting on poems, diaries, plays, masques, letters and biographies, Reprobates introduces us to . . . a flamboyant parade of chancers, dreamers, turncoats, heroes, idiots and hedonists who grab the reader's shoulders and force a drink on us as if in some dim-lit, tallow-smoked tavern of the 1630s'Independent 'Swaggeringly splendid.Stubbs is a brilliant expositor of poetry.one… Leer más