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Blood And Roses: One Family's Struggle And Triumph During England's Tumultuous War of the Roses - Hardcover
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The lives and fortunes of the members of the Paston family during England's devastating War of the Roses are revealed in an intriguing family portrait based on a rare series of letters that follow the family as they work their way up in the world from simple farmers to landed gentry. 25,000 first printing.
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"Dynamic... Persuasive. The tensions and affections binding the family shine across the centuries." -- Boston Globe
"Castor has brought the Paston family to life in an accessible and fluid narrative."--Library Journal
"Dynamic... Persuasive... The tensions and affections binding the family shine across the centuries."--Boston Globe
"A master of every weapon in the modern historian's arsenal... Castor has made the whole century live again ."--New York Times Book Review
"Beautifully paced and splendidly retold, Castor's tale... is popular history at its best."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Blood and Roses is a gripping biography of the Paston family set against the turbulent background of the Wars of the Roses by Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves and Joan of Arc.
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Blood and Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century
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HarperCollins Publishers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007148089
ISBN 13: 9780007148080
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. In a span of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder, yet until now, almost nothing has been known about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time.Drawing on an incomparably rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the lives of the Paston family, who singlemindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. As they went about their business in a disintegrating society, the Pastons corresponded on topics ranging from politics to love, from shopping to family gossip. A wife writes her husband that she'd rather have him home than have a new gown, even if it were scarlet. A brother reports that the handless servant, Thomas Stumps, has demanded a crossbow so that he can defend them in a siege. Five hundred years later, these voices still have the immediacy of a conversation overheard on a street corner.Blood and Roses is a gripping and intimate biography of a family, which traces three generations of births, marriages, and deaths. Castor unravels the story of the family's tur-bulent affairs against the backdrop of civil war, bringing to vibrant life a remote and hazy era. Seller Inventory # 00109875265
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Blood and Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century
Published by
HarperCollins Publishers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007148089
ISBN 13: 9780007148080
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Hardcover
Seller: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardback. Condition: Good. In a span of thirty years, four kings lost their thrones, countless men lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and others found themselves suddenly flush with gold. The Wars of the Roses tore England asunder, yet until now, almost nothing has been known about the ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary time.Drawing on an incomparably rare trove of letters discovered in a tumbledown stately home, historian Helen Castor reconstructs the lives of the Paston family, who singlemindedly worked their way up from farmers to landed gentry. As they went about their business in a disintegrating society, the Pastons corresponded on topics ranging from politics to love, from shopping to family gossip. A wife writes her husband that she'd rather have him home than have a new gown, even if it were scarlet. A brother reports that the handless servant, Thomas Stumps, has demanded a crossbow so that he can defend them in a siege. Five hundred years later, these voices still have the immediacy of a conversation overheard on a street corner.Blood and Roses is a gripping and intimate biography of a family, which traces three generations of births, marriages, and deaths. Castor unravels the story of the family's tur-bulent affairs against the backdrop of civil war, bringing to vibrant life a remote and hazy era. Seller Inventory # CIN0007148089G
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Blood and Roses: The Paston
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