歷史

Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England
出版社： Harper Collins Publishers
書林書號：
20213824
作者：
Erickson, Carolly
定價：
525
會員價：
$446
ISBN：
9780380813346
出版年份：
2011
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
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The fascinating personalities of Regency England provide the dramatic intrigue of this excellent social history that looks at the dynamic forces of English society in flux. From the acclaimed author of Bloody Mary and Mistress Anne.


Regency England, the period between 1810 and 1820, has long been seen as a decade of hedonism and romance, when dashing beaux and elegant belles played out their flirtations against a backdrop of opulence and style. Yet beneath the surface glitter of the Regency lay an underlying malaise, a pervasive hollowness and sense of loss, along with an explosive undercurrent of popular unrest and political radicalism.

It was indeed a tempestuous, quicksilver era, haunted by war and the human wreckage of war, and by fears of Luddite violence and risings of the overtaxed, underfed poor. A time of financial uncertainty when fortunes were made and lost amid high risk and the ever-present specter of bankruptcy.

And it was, memorably, a decade studded with larger-than-life personalities: the aged king in his slow decline into delusion; the flamboyant Prince Regent in his extravagant Brighton Pavilion; the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo; the debauched, tragically fissured Lord Byron, hero to the women of fashionable London. These and many others are brought to vibrant life in this wide-ranging, captivating social history---a history as dramatic as the times themselves.


美國超級暢銷書作家，哥倫比亞大學哲學博士卡蘿麗·埃裡克森（Carolly Erickson）對中世紀歷史有深入的研究，她在大學執教六年後，寫傳記而一舉成名，此後便成為全職作家，現居住在夏威夷。
她著有大量歷史傳記，包括《伊莉莎白一世》（THE FIRST ELIZABETH）、《維多利亞女王》（HER LITTLE MAJESTY）和《亞歷山卓：末代女沙皇》（ALEXANDRA）等。Erickson的多部小說都受到了評論界的讚賞，並且多次獲得捧得大獎，而她最暢銷的作品便是一系列的歷史傳記小說，其小說的範圍之廣、影響之深實屬罕見。

Distinguished historian Carolly Erickson is the author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette, The First Elizabeth, Great Catherine, Alexandra, and many other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. She lives in Hawaii.
"A lively and thoroughly enthralling account of thisparadoxical age ... [that reads] like a whopping good novel." --- New York Times Book Review

"Anyone wanting a lively, decorative introduction to the Regency could not do better than Our Tempestuous Day."---Washington Post
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