The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey who was Queen of England for nine days in July 1553. Jane grew up watching her cousins in training as heirs to the throne, little imagining that by a twist of fate she would one day be crowned. But this is Tudor England where nobody plays fair, and even a queen isn
Innocent Traitor: a Novel of Lady Jane Grey
✍ Scribed by Alison Weir
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 385 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0345498062
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn.
I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.
Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey--"the Nine Days' Queen" --a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.
The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyn's beheading and the demise of Jane's infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII. With the premature passing of Jane' s adolescent cousin, and Henry's successor, King...
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Edward még csak tizenhat éves, és már Anglia királya. De sajnos épp haldoklik, ami elég kellemetlen, ha azt nézzük, hogy inkább az első csókja tervezésével kellene foglalkoznia, mint azzal, hogy kire is hagyja a trónt… Jane Edward unokatestvére, akit sokkal inkább érdekelnek a könyvek, mint a ro
Nagy-Britannia történelmi időket él... A Tudorok legbátrabb, legvonzóbb és leginkább megalázott hősnője, Lady Jane Grey veszedelmes korban született. A kislány hatalomvágytól fűtött apja számára tökéletes fegyver a hatalmi harcok színterén, míg anyja könyörtelenül irányítja a trón felé. Jane vallásh
Zane Grey was a disappointed aspirant to major league baseball and an unhappy dentist when he belatedly decided to take up writing at the age of thirty. He went on to become the most successful American author of the 1920s, a significant figure in the early development of the film industry, and cent
Foraging for supplies by night in a beautiful but hostile urban world where strangers would kill him on sight, Addison endures a solitary existence before meeting a quicksilver girl engaged in a dangerous duel of wits with a malicious, well-placed enemy.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes Dean Koontz’s short story “Wilderness”! This ebook edition contains a special preview of Dean Koontz’s The Silent Corner. In Innocence, Dean Koontz blends mystery, suspense, and acute insight into the human soul in a masterfully told tale that will resonate with