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Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429904062 |
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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 glamorous mistress of Versailles to the heartbreak of imprisonment and humiliation during the French Revolution. Carolly Erickson takes the reader deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her; her fears on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing attempted flight from France in disguise; her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her young son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again. Erickson brilliantly captures the queen's voice, her hopes, her dreads, and her suffering. We follow, mesmerized, as she reveals every detail of her remarkable, eventful life—from her teenage years when she began keeping a diary to her final days when she awaited her own bloody appointment with the guillotine.
Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2006-01 |
Genre | : Diary fiction |
ISBN | : 9780732283605 |
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Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429904054 |
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One of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolution France. Yet there was an innocence about Antoinette, thrust as a child into the chillingly formal French court. Married to the maladroit, ill-mannered Dauphin, Antoinette found pleasure in costly entertainments and garments. She spent lavishly while her overtaxed and increasingly hostile subjects blamed her for France's plight. In time Antoinette matured into a courageous Queen, and when their enemies finally closed in, Antoinette followed her inept husband to the guillotine in one last act of bravery. In To the Scaffold, Carolly Erickson provides an estimation of a lost Queen that is psychologically acute, richly detailed, and deeply moving.
Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780860518181 |
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Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2006-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312352189 |
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Carolly Erickson recreates the story of Henry VIII's sixth wife - the courageous, romantic, intelligent Catherine Parr.
Author | : Anna L. Bicknell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Queens |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429960876 |
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From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be—the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. And so begins the latest entrancing historical entertainment by Carolly Erickson. At its center is young Tania, who lives a life of incomparable luxury in pre-Revolutionary Russia, from the magnificence of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to the family's private enclave outside the capital. Tania is one of four daughters, and the birth of her younger brother Alexei is both a blessing and a curse. When he is diagnosed with hemophilia and the key to his survival lies in the mysterious power of the illiterate monk Rasputin, it is merely an omen of much worse things to come. Soon war breaks out and revolution sweeps the family from power and into claustrophobic imprisonment in Siberia. Into Tania's world comes a young soldier whose life she helps to save and who becomes her partner in daring plans to rescue the imperial family from certain death.
Author | : Evelyn Farr |
Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780720610017 |
Download Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this definitive new edition of her acclaimed study Evelyn Farr draws on fresh evidence from archive sources - including decoded secret correspondence - to peel back the layers of misinformation obscuring the Queen's great love affair and to reveal its impact on the destiny of the French Royal Family.--Publisher.
Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2007-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429918802 |
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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. Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had an exotic Creole appeal that would ultimately propel her to reign over an empire as wife of the most powerful man in the world. But her life is a story of ambition and danger, of luck and a ferocious will to survive. Married young to an arrogant French aristocrat who died during the Terror, Josephine also narrowly missed losing her head to the guillotine. But her extraordinary charm, sensuality, and natural cunning helped her become mistress to some of the most powerful politicians in post-Revolutionary France. Soon she had married the much younger General Bonaparte, whose armies garnered France an empire that ran from Europe to Africa and the New World and who crowned himself and his wife Emperor and Empress of France. He dominated on the battlefield and she presided over the worlds of fashion and glamor. But Josephine's heart belonged to another man--the mysterious, compelling stranger who had won her as a girl in Martinique.
Author | : Carolly Erickson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2012-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 031259691X |
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A fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Howard traces her early years as a sensual plaything for a series of lovers and her treasonous passion for Tom Culpeper before her failure to produce a son for the king and scandalous allegations condemn her to death.