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Cargando... Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles: A Novel (1992)por Margaret George
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Spoiler: Mary gets it in the end ( ) Not that I don't like doorstoppers, but this one felt too long in some areas. It was a good book, well-written, and with an interesting cast of characters, but there were many points where it felt more like a history textbook than a novel. I suppose it was supposed to catalogue Mary's entire life, but it seriously dragged sometimes. The level of detail involved was also something I wasn't impressed by. Riccio's It wasn't a boring book, but it was too long in some areas and some of it reads more like a textbook than a novel. I enjoyed Margaret George's book on Henry VIII much more. As usual with Ms. George this book is very detailed. At times I thought I might give up but so glad I didn’t. Fascinating depiction of Mary and at times Elizabeth as well as Walsingham, the founder of what is now known as the British Secret Service. I read this in preparation for the new movie on Mary but when I found out that in the movie Mary and Elizabeth met face to face I decided to skip it since that never happened. Great read and glad I finished Whew! I finally finished last night. It is an excellent book, as all Margaret George's books seem to be. It is laden with descriptive detail and this made it a bit slower going for me, more like the pace of a non-fiction book. I have always wondered about Mary Stuart's supposed intelligence. How could her contemporaries have believed she was smart as well as beautiful, when her choices were so poor? This book makes it very clear that she let her heart-and her hormones-rule her head. She should have paid more attention to her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, who was the antithesis of Mary. Less trusting and willing to give her heart entirely away(of course her upbringing was entirely different from Mary's, actually quite bizarre)she was more successful in living her life and ruling her country. It's a sad story. A definite recommend for this book, but be prepared to take your time with reading. It's worth it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Esta novela, Margaret George, autora tambien de Memorias de Cleopatra, aborda desde una nueva perspectiva la figura de Maria Estuardo (1542-1587), reina de Escocia y protagonista de las intrigas politico-religiosa de la Europa del siglo XVI. Hija unica de Jacobo V de Escocia y de su esposa de origen frances, Maria de Guisa, Maria Estuardo alcanzo el trono siendo una nina. Contraviniendo la opinion de Enrique VIII, que abogaba por una formacion inglesa, Maria fue enviada a Francia, donde recibio educacion. De regreso en Escocia, no solo tuvo que soportar los recelos de sus compatriotas, sino tambien los de su prima Isabel I, que acababa de alcanzar el trono ingles. Como afrancesada y catolica, Maria Estuardo jamas obtuvo el beneplacito de una Escocia que se encontraba en plena reforma protestante. Este conflicto, unido a las divergencias entre los representantes de la nobleza, ya los problemas personales de la protagonista, que fue acusada de asesinar a su primer marido, provoco el tragico final de su vida.Margaret George aporta el contrapunto a la imagen distorsionada que ofrecieron tanto los correligionarios como los detractores de Maria Estuardo, profundizando en el aspecto humano de quien fuera calificada por la reina Isabel I de Inglaterra de hija de la discordia. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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