The Three Richards

Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826424150

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The Three Richards by Nigel Saul Pdf

The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I ('Coeur de Lion', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his cousin, Henry IV, and murdered; while Richard III (1483-85), as the murderer of his nephews, 'The Princes in the Tower', was the most notorious villain in English history. This highly readable joint biography shows how much the three kings had in common, apart from their names. All were younger sons of monarchs, not expected to come to the throne; all failed to leave a legitimate heir, causing instability on their deaths; all were cultured and pious; and all died violently. All have attracted accusations but also fascination. In comparing them, Nigel Saul tells three gripping stories and shows what it took to be a medieval king.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082528574

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King Richard II by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1597
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158009319392

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Richard III. by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300149050

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Richard II by Nigel Saul Pdf

Richard II is one of the most enigmatic of English kings. Shakespeare depicted him as a tragic figure, an irresponsible, cruel monarch who nevertheless rose in stature as the substance of power slipped from him. By later writers he has been variously portrayed as a half-crazed autocrat or a conventional ruler whose principal errors were the mismanagement of his nobility and disregard for the political conventions of his age. This book—the first full-length biography of Richard in more than fifty years—offers a radical reinterpretation of the king. Nigel Saul paints a picture of Richard as a highly assertive and determined ruler, one whose key aim was to exalt and dignify the crown. In Richard's view, the crown was threatened by the factiousness of the nobility and the assertiveness of the common people. The king met these challenges by exacting obedience, encouraging lofty new forms of address, and constructing an elaborate system of rule by bonds and oaths. Saul traces the sources of Richard's political ideas and finds that he was influenced by a deeply felt orthodox piety and by the ideas of the civil lawyers. He shows that, although Richard's kingship resembled that of other rulers of the period, unlike theirs, his reign ended in failure because of tactical errors and contradictions in his policies. For all that he promoted the image of a distant, all-powerful monarch, Richard II's rule was in practice characterized by faction and feud. The king was obsessed by the search for personal security: in his subjects, however, he bred only insecurity and fear. A revealing portrait of a complex and fascinating figure, the book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the politics and culture of the English middle ages.

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385350099

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King Richard by Michael Dobbs Pdf

ONE OF USA TODAY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president—from the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight. In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. He enjoyed an almost 70 percent approval rating. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called “a full-blown cancer.” King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate conspiracy unraveled as the burglars and their handlers turned on one another, exposing the crimes of a vengeful president. Drawing on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs takes us into the heart of the conspiracy, recreating these traumatic events in cinematic detail. He captures the growing paranoia of the principal players and their desperate attempts to deflect blame as the noose tightens around them. We eavesdrop on Nixon plotting with his aides, raging at his enemies, while also finding time for affectionate moments with his family. The result is an unprecedentedly vivid, close-up portrait of a president facing his greatest crisis. Central to the spellbinding drama is the tortured personality of Nixon himself, a man whose strengths, particularly his determination to win at all costs, become his fatal flaws. Rising from poverty to become the most powerful man in the world, he commits terrible errors of judgment that lead to his public disgrace. He makes himself—and then destroys himself. Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, King Richard is an epic, deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.

Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782278436

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Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Pdf

The classic historical mystery about Richard III and the Princes in the Tower - voted the Best Crime Novel of All Time by the CWA 'As interesting and enjoyable a book as you will meet in a month of Sundays' Observer Who really killed the princes in the tower? Was Richard III truly the ogre of legend and Shakespeare's play? A wicked uncle who murdered his nephews to steal the crown of England? Inspector Alan Grant is not so sure. Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with unravelling this most enduring of historical mysteries. As he investigates with the help of an enthusiastic young American scholar, he unearths long-buried intrigues and comes to a startling conclusion.

Author : Keith Richards
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316178723

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Life by Keith Richards Pdf

The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life. Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. The Rolling Stones's first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as an outlaw folk hero. Creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." His relationship with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones. Tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction. Falling in love with Patti Hansen. Estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. Marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos, and the road that goes on forever. With his trademark disarming honesty, Keith Richard brings us the story of a life we have all longed to know more of, unfettered, fearless, and true.

Author : Jame Richards
Publisher : Ember
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375853692

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Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards Pdf

Sixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel’s hired boy. It’s a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it’s a love that could get Celestia disowned. These affairs of the heart become all the more wrenching on a single, tragic day in May, 1889. After days of heavy rain, the dam fails, unleashing 20 million tons of water onto Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the valley below. The town where Peter lives with his father. The town where Celestia has just arrived to join him. This searing novel in poems explores a cross-class romance—and a tragic event in U. S. history.

Author : William Shakespeare,George Steevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1786
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10749349

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Richard II. by William Shakespeare,George Steevens Pdf

Author : David Adams Richards
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743448185

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Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards Pdf

When twelve-year-old Sidney Henderson pushes his friend Connie off the roof of a local church in a moment of anger, he makes a silent vow: Let Connie live and I will never harm another soul. At that very moment, Connie stands, laughs, and walks away. Sidney keeps his promise through adulthood despite the fact that his insular, rural community uses his pacifism to exploit him. Sidney's son Lyle, however, assumes an increasingly aggressive stance in defense of his family. When a small boy is killed in a tragic accident and Sidney is blamed, Lyle takes matters into his own hands. In his effort to protect the people he loves -- his beautiful and fragile mother, Elly; his gifted sister, Autumn; and his innocent brother, Percy -- it is Lyle who will determine his family's legacy.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143039482

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The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck Pdf

The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis A Penguin Classic In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : James Gairdner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UVA:X000736712

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History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third by James Gairdner Pdf

Author : Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCAL:$B308312

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Three Margarets by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards Pdf

Author : Keith G. Richards
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926645131

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Smartbounce by Keith G. Richards Pdf

Many investors watched in horror as 30% or more of their portfolio vanished during the market massacre of 2008. If you are one of those investors, this book will teach you a better -- and safer -- way to invest. In SmartBounce Keith G. Richards describes three actions steps for recovering your portfolio: Choose the right time. Achieve the right balance. Be in the right place.

Author : Jack C. Richards,Samuela Eckstut-Didier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521281119

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Strategic Reading Level 3 Student's Book by Jack C. Richards,Samuela Eckstut-Didier Pdf

Strategic Reading Second edition is a three-level series designed to develop reading, fluency, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. Strategic Reading Level 3 is a reading skills book that contains twelve thematic units, each with three high interest authentic readings. The readings are unsimplified and are appropriate for students at the low-advanced to advanced level. Exercise material surrounding the readings builds students' vocabulary and develops their reading and critical thinking skills.