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The Fifth Queen: And How She Came to Court

Author
Ford Madox Ford
Language
English
Length
256 pages
ISBN
9781787248724
Published
12 September 2018
Imprint
Sovereign
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Description

Young Katharine Howard arrives at Henry VIII’s treacherous court, where shifting allegiances and political hunger surround her first steps toward dangerous favour. Ford’s opening volume of Tudor intrigue, love, and peril, as personal integrity collides with the dangerous allure of power. Coming to court is only the beginning of the climb.

Author

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review helped shape early twentieth-century English and American literature. He is best remembered for The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade's End tetralogy (1924-1928), and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906-1908). The Good Soldier is frequently ranked among the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

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