Henry Viii (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame [Audiobook] download free by John Guy
- Listen audiobook: Henry Viii (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame
- Author: John Guy
- Release date: 2015/3/8
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780141977126
- Rating: 8.93 of 10
- Votes: 499
- Review by: Celeste Pomeroy
- Review rating: 9.64 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/13
- Duration: 2H1M18S in 256 kbps (32 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, ATRAC, FLAC, AIFF, WAV, MPEG4, MP3 (compression ZIP, LHA, ARJ, RAR, CHM, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 160
- Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M52S (3.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 Rome; a talented, towering figure who nevertheless could not bear to meet people's eyes when he talked to them. In this revealing new account, John Guy looks behind the mask into Henry's mind to explore how he understood the world and his place in it - from his isolated upbringing and the blazing glory of his accession, to his desperate quest for fame and an heir and the terrifying paranoia of his last, agonising, 54-inch-waisted years.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Royalty, Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700, British & Irish History, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
- Download servers: FileServe, BitShare, Uploadable, MEGA, Dropbox. Compressed in ZIP, LHA, ARJ, RAR, CHM, TAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 19.38 USD
- Dimensions: 129x186x20mm
- Weight: 232g
- Printed by: ALLEN LANE
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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