| John Plantagenet: the last child of ttenry I1and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the youngestbrother of Richard Lionheart, the possessorof so small a portion of his family s wealththat people called him Lackland. Four olderbrothers had to die before hc became KingJohn, the most unjustly reviled, maligned andneglected monarch in the history of England. A different King John comes startlingly tolife in this exhilarating historical noveh Afresh examination of the facts has yielded upa complex, contradictory, figure of heroic size.He seems contemporary in his battles withhimself, his past and his present. And hisstruggles with the world around him-againstoverwhehning odds in times as revolutionaryas the Renaissance to keep intact the king-dom hc inherited-give us a powerful andmoving story of a man whose dreams andneeds drove him to disaster. |
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