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  • Queen of Scots

    The True Life of Mary Stuart

    de John Guy ...
    This Whitbread Award–winning biography and basis for the film Mary Queen of Scots starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie "reads like Shakespearean drama" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution )."A triumph . . . A masterpiece full of fire and tragedy." —Amanda Foreman, author of GeorgianaIn the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, J... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mary Queen of Scots

    de John Guy ...
    A biography "as enthralling as a detective story" ( New York Times Book Review ) of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland.Basis for the movie starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie.Winner of the Whitbread AwardIn Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and ... ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Daughter's Love

    Thomas More & His Dearest Meg

    de John Guy ...
    The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a "brilliantly observed" dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter ( The New York Times).Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been largely airbrushed out ... Leer más

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  • Gresham's Law

    The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker

    de John Guy ...
    Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden power behind three out of the five Tudor monarchs. Today his name is remembered in economic doctrines, in the institutions he founded and in the City of London's position at the economic centre of the earth.Without Gresham, England truly might have ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Quest for Fame

    de John Guy ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England.Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions: magnificent and vengeful; a devout traditionalist who oversaw a cataclysmic rupture with the church in ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Thomas Becket

    Warrior, Priest, Rebel

    de John Guy ...
    A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honorNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KANSAS CITY STAR AND BLOOMBERGBecket’s life story has been often told but never so incisively reexamined and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Tudors

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John Guy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction. Looking at all aspects of the period, from beginning to end, he considers Tudor politics, religion, and economics, as well as issues relating to gender and minority rule, and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction

    de John Guy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Guy's Very Short Introduction to The Tudors is the most authoritative short introduction to this age in British history. It offers a compelling account of the political, religious and economic changes of the country under such leading monarchs as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The work has been substantially ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Children of Henry VIII

    de John Guy ...
    Behind the façade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the pope, all in an age of ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Elizabeth

    The Later Years

    de John Guy ...
    **COSTA AWARD FINALISTECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARFilm rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding“A fresh, thrilling portrait… Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.”–Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book ReviewA groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen, Elizabeth is an intimate and surprising biography that shows ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

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    Mary Queen of Scots

    The True Life of Mary Stuart

    de John Guy ...
    Narrado por Lucy Rayner ...

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    25 hora 8 minutos

    In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Thomas More

    de John Guy ...
    Series series Very Brief Histories
    'If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.' So commented The Times in 1978 on the 500th anniversary of More's birth.Twenty-two years later, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Thomas More the patron saint of politicians and people in public life, on the basis of his 'constant ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD