George IV (Penguin Monarchs)
King in Waiting
$27.39
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
4 July 2019
Summary
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king, first a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. ‘The days are very long when you have nothing to do’ he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era and was,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141978857 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141978856 |
| Author: | Stella Tillyard |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 4 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 201g |
| Dimensions: | 186mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Monarchs |
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excellent … Tillyard offers insightful and balanced analysis of this ambivalent figure–Jane Darcy, Times Literary Supplement
excellent… Tillyard offers insightful and balanced analysis of this ambivalent figure – Jane Darcy * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Stella Tillyard
Stella Tillyard is one of Britain’s best-selling historians, notably Aristocrats- Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832, winner of the History Today Prize and the Fawcett Prize, which became a BBC/WGBH series, A Royal Affair- George III and His Troublesome Siblings, Citizen Lord- Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-98, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread prize, and a novel, Tides of War. She lives in London and Florence.
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