The Fifth Queen Crowned

For most of her short life, she was Katharine Howard, the daughter of an English Lord. For two tumultuous years, she was the Queen of England. Having outlasted the brutally efficient advisor Thomas Cromwell, Katharine marries Henry VIII. Soon, however, her intelligence and willpower threaten the King’s fragile ego. The Fifth Queen Crowned is a novel by Ford Madox Ford.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was born Ford Hermann Hueffer in Kent, England. He was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose influential journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review promoted the work of such writers as Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway, and debuted works of Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and D. H. Lawrence. The Good Soldier was published in 1915-the year Ford enlisted in the army where he served as an infantry officer during the Battle of the Somme and at the Ypres Salient. Ford is also known for Parade's End, a series of four novels about his experiences during the First World War. The Good Soldier is counted among the greatest works of literature of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ford Madox Ford
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.06.2021
• EAN: 9781513290812
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-9081-2
• Seiten: 168
• Illustration: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Serien: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Historical Fiction; Mint Editions (Historical Fiction)
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Tudor, FICTION / Historical / Renaissance, Historical adventure fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary