The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: Alston Rivers, ltd. Publication date: 1906Description: Photocopy inserted with handwritten note to Gordon Ray explaining the meaing and usage of the term "onlie begetter" within Ford's works. Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: Alston Rivers, ltd. Publication date: 1906Description: Photocopy inserted with handwritten note to Gordon Ray explaining the meaing and usage of the term "onlie begetter" within Ford's works. Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description
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 manuever 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 power and fear in any era.
Critic Reviews
“"Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception." - Joseph Conrad "The best historical romance of this century." - The Times Literary Supplement (London) " The Fifth Queen is a magnificent bravura piece." -Graham Greene”
"Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception." -- Joseph Conrad "The best historical romance of this century." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)
"The Fifth Queen is a magnificent bravura piece." --Graham Greene
About the Author
Ford Madox Ford, born Ford Hermann Hueffer, was born in 1873 in Surrey, England. He collaborated with Joseph Conrad on "The Inheritors" and other books, and prolifically published poetry, criticism, and fiction throughout his lifetime. He founded the "English Review" in 1908 and later edited the "Transatlantic Review", publishing Joyce, Hemingway, and Pound, among others. He died in 1939.
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