Onze site gebruikt cookies om diensten te leveren, prestaties te verbeteren, voor analyse en (indien je niet ingelogd bent) voor advertenties. Door LibraryThing te gebruiken erken je dat je onze Servicevoorwaarden en Privacybeleid gelezen en begrepen hebt. Je gebruik van de site en diensten is onderhevig aan dit beleid en deze voorwaarden.
The Last of the Barons has been by many esteemed the best of the Author's romances; and perhaps in the portraiture of actual character, and the grouping of the various interests and agencies of the time, it may have produced effects which render it more vigorous and lifelike than any of the other attempts in romance by the same hand. It will be observed that the purely imaginary characters introduced are very few; and, however prominent they may appear, still, in order not to interfere with the genuine passions and events of history, they are represented as the passive sufferers, not the active agents, of the real events. Of these imaginary characters, the most successful is Adam Warner, the philosopher in advance of his age; indeed, as an ideal portrait, I look upon it as the most original in conception, and the most finished in execution, of any to be found in my numerous prose works, _Zanoni_ alone excepted. -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton… (meer)
2440 The Last of the Barons, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Lord Lytton) (read 3 Apr 1992) This 1843 book tells the story of the Earl of Warwick from 1467 to his death at the battle of Barnet on Apr 14, 1471. It sticks very close to historical fact and there are but a few invented characters. I think the book is really good--and since it is truer to history than Sir Walter Scott I like it better. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (called the Kingmaker) put Edward IV on the throne in 1461, and Henry VI was in prison thereafter till Warwick switched sides--possibly because of Edward IV's attempted rape of Warwick's daughter Anne (later wife to Henry VI's son, and then to Richard III) and Edward IV fled from England and Henry VI resumed the throne. Edward IV returned to England and in a month regained the throne. This book has made the period a lot easier to understand than the turgid histories I have read on the Wars of the Roses. I would like to visit the Barnet battlefield, where an obelisk marks the spot where Warwick fell. This has been an excellent book, and I like it better than Bulwer-Lytton's most famous novel The Last Days of Pompeii, which I read July 4, 1967 and don't remember much about. . ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary hamlet of Charing, a broad space broken, here and there, by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminster and London.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Mechanically Elizabeth turned her moistened eyes from Edward to Edward's bother, and suddenly, as with a mother's prophetic instinct, clasped her infant closer to her bosom, when she caught the glittering and fatal eye of Richard, Duke of Gloucester (York's young hero of the day, Warwick's grim avenger in the future), fixed upon that harmless life--the only life, save the despised and powerless Clarence, whose destiny it needed no wisdom to foresee,--which stood between the ambition of a ruthless intellect and the heritage of the English throne!
The Last of the Barons has been by many esteemed the best of the Author's romances; and perhaps in the portraiture of actual character, and the grouping of the various interests and agencies of the time, it may have produced effects which render it more vigorous and lifelike than any of the other attempts in romance by the same hand. It will be observed that the purely imaginary characters introduced are very few; and, however prominent they may appear, still, in order not to interfere with the genuine passions and events of history, they are represented as the passive sufferers, not the active agents, of the real events. Of these imaginary characters, the most successful is Adam Warner, the philosopher in advance of his age; indeed, as an ideal portrait, I look upon it as the most original in conception, and the most finished in execution, of any to be found in my numerous prose works, _Zanoni_ alone excepted. -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Google Books — Bezig met laden...
(2.63)
1
. (