![]() Hopefully the information I have selected to share will be enough to make readers want to pick up this book. Barnes captures the flavor, pageantry, and color of the Middle Ages…a distinguished novel." -Philadelphia Inquirer Read moreįrom my blog.When writing reviews such as this one, there is for me a fine line between giving just enough information and telling too much. "Sympathetic picture of sensitive, peace-loving, and ill-beset Richard II, who had it in him to be one of the best kings England ever had." -Booklist But when tragedy strikes, Richard begins to loose the common touch by which he had ruled so brilliantly, and begins a downward spiral from which his detractors would derive strength. ![]() A leader as unexpected as he is inexperienced, young Richard must find a way to triumph over a fierce conflict more destructive than any foreign enemy.Richard's love for his wife, Anne of Bohemia, gave him the strength to outwit the schemes of his enemies and govern as he saw fit, providing England with years of properity under his reign. But the mantle of royalty is thrust upon his shoulders at age 11, at a time when England is racked by unrest and class warefare. ![]() Unlike his father, the Black Prince, or his namesake, King Richard the Lionheart, Richard II never really wanted to be king. "Within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king…" -Shakespeare, T he Tragedy of King Richard II ![]()
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