Ford Madox Ford s novel about the doomed Katharine Howard, fifth queen of Henry VIII, is a neglected masterpiece.
Kat Howard intelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken, and passionately idealistic catches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wife. A teenager who has grown up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. It is a time of great upheaval, as unscrupulous courtiers maneuver for power while religious fanatics both Protestant and Catholic fight bitterly for their competing beliefs. Soon Katharine is drawn into a perilous showdown with Thomas Cromwell, the much-feared Lord Privy Seal, as her growing influence over the King begins to threaten too many powerful interests. Originally published in three parts ("The Fifth Queen, Privy Seal, "and "The Fifth Queen Crowned"), Ford s novel serves up both a breathtakingly visual evocation of the Tudor world and a timeless portrayal of the insidious operations of… (tovább)
The Fifth Queen (The Fifth Queen 1-3.) 0 csillagozás
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Thomas Howard (Norfolk 3. hercege)
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This Norfolk was that Earl of Surrey who had won Flodden Field. They all then esteemed him the greatesr captain of his day-in the field as a commander sleepless, cunning, cautious, and, in striking, a Hotspur.
A dour and silent man.
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With the droop of the Duke's long arms hi hat seemed to brush the stones, his heas fell on his chest. It was finished.
He had seen so many things go that he loved. And now this old women with her Germans, her heresies-her children doubtless-meant the final downfall of the Old Order in this day. It would return, but he would never see it. And under Cromwell's sardonic gaze his head hung limply, and his eyes filled with hot and blinding drops. His face trembled kike that of a very old man.
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There seemed to Cranmer something horrible in this impassivity, He wished his leader to go to the Kin, and he had a frantic moment of imagining himself running to a great distancem hiding his head in darkness.
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