Carolly Erickson - Böcker

Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life - from her privileged childhood as Austrian Archduchess to her years as glam...

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In this biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe. With the sp...

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A rich biography of "Bloody Mary" that exposes other themes in Mary Tudor's reign. Bearing extraordinary burdens, Mary ruled with full measure of the Tudor majesty and met the challenges of severe economic crises, rebellion, and religiou...

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Josephine Bonaparte's life story was as turbulent as the age--an era of revolution and social upheaval, of the guillotine and of frenzied hedonism. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Erickson brings the complex, charmi...

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This enthralling look at the life of Alexandra is the perfect complement to Edvard Radzinsky's bestselling "The Last Tsar." "Heartbreaking . . . Erickson excels."--"Chicago Tribune." 8-page photo insert.

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With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson focuses on each monarch's entire life - from the puny, socially awkward Charles I, to the choleric, violent William the Conqueror, to the wel...

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One of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolutionary France. Yet there was an innocence about Antoinette, who was thrust as a child into the chillingly formal French court...

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On "Alexandra: "Gifted...breathless...heartbreaking...Erickson excels." - "Chicago Tribune "Entertaining...this accomplished historical biographer tells it with style and suspense." - "Publishers Weekly

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Courageous, romantic, intelligent: Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII and her story, as Carolly Erickson recreates it, is riveting drama.

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The bestselling author of "The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette" and "The Last Wife of Henry VIII" returns with an enchanting novel about one of the most seductive women in history--Josephine Bonaparte, first wife of Napoleon.

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From the bestselling author of "The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette" comes adramatic novel and love story about the last Russian Imperial family.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII comes a novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man. Powerful and dramatic, t...

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The fascinating personalities of Regency England provide the dramatic intrigue of this excellent social history that looks at the dynamic forces of English society in flux. From the acclaimed author of Bloody Mary and Mistress Anne.

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The story of Botany Bay prisoner Mary Bryant who in the early 1790s, with her husband William, two small children, and seven other convicts, stole a boat and escaped Sydney by sailing all the way north to Timor, some 3250 treacherous miles in unde...

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A "vivid" (Kirkus Reviews) and multilayered biography of Queen Victoria chronicling the life of the longest-reigning British monarch who ruled for sixty-four years, offering an intimate portrait of a woman who after losing her beloved hu...

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Born into an ambitious noble family, young Jane Seymour is sent to Court as a Maid of Honour to Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's aging queen. She is devoted to her mistress and watches with empathy as the calculating Anne Boleyn contrives to supp...

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When young Catherine of Aragon, proud daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, is sent to England to marry the weak Prince Arthur, she is unprepared for all that awaits her: early widowhood, the challenge of warfare with the invading Scots, ...

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The lives and deaths of the Romanov family are redolent with colour and drama, but the personal life of the beautiful Tsarina Alexandra has remained enigmatic. Under Erickson's masterful scrutiny the full dimensions of the Empress's singular psych...

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An insightful and fascinating portrait of Queen Victoria, from her childhood through her adult life, detailing her personal life and relationships with friends, family, and the public. A ';vivid' (Kirkus Reviews) and multilayered biography of Quee...

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The lives and deaths of the Romanov family are redolent with colour and drama, but the personal life of the beautiful Tsarina Alexandra has remained enigmatic. Under Erickson's masterful scrutiny the full dimensions of the Empress's singular psych...

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Sharp and enjoyable new portraits of the English kings and queens. Hunchbacked Richard III, the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I, the grieving widow Victoria, and the romantic who gave up his throne for love, Edward VIII - often the colourful kings and qu...

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Gegen alle Widerstände heiratet sie ihre große Liebe und steigt zur mächtigsten Frau Russlands auf: Alexandra Romanowa (1872-1918). Die ebenso schöne wie gebildete Frau von Zar Nikolaus II. bleibt jedoch eine Fremde am Zarenho...

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Despre Maria Antoaneta s-a spus c? iubea luxul ?i pl?cerile frivole mai presus de orice. S? ne imagin?m ÿns? c? ÿn noaptea dinaintea execu?iei sale, regina las? ÿn celula de la Conciergerie un jurnal ÿn care ÿ?i poveste?te via?a ? de la copil...

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