La fille du faiseur de rois

by Philippa Gregory, Sarah Dali (Translator)

Overview

Entre espions, poison et malédiction, il n'est pas évident d'être une femme à la cour d'Angleterre. Y a-t-il quelqu'un en qui Anne Neville pourra avoir confiance ?
Angleterre, 1465, les grandes familles de Lancastre et York se disputent depuis plus de 10 ans le trône.
À cette époque un homme œuvre dans l'ombre pour faire et défaire les dynasties, au gré de ses intérêts personnels : Richard Neville, comte de Warwick, surnommé le " faiseur de rois". Celui- ci, sans héritier homme, s'est servi de ses deux filles, Isabelle et Anne, comme des pions sur l'échiquier politique.
L'histoire est racontée ici par Anne Neville. Mariée très jeune, Anne perd très vite son époux, ainsi que son père en 1471. Sa mère est enfermée au sanctuaire et sa sœur mariée à l'ennemi.
Elle s'en sort en épousant Richard, le frère du roi, mais doit affronter la puissante famille royale, notamment la reine.
Après la mort de sa sœur et de son seul fils, Anne finira par réaliser le rêve de son père en montant sur le trône aux côtés de Richard. Malheureusement, celui-ci s'éprend de sa nièce Élisabeth (future reine et femme d'Henri VII, la Princesse Blanche)...

La Guerre des Deux-Roses, souvent considérée en Angleterre comme le passage entre le Moyen Âge et l'époque moderne, moment fondateur pour l'État anglais, est ici racontée avec brio par l'une des plus talentueuse romancière du genre, qui choisit de faire parler les femmes que l'Histoire a trop souvent tendance à oublier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782755620368
Publisher:	Hugo et compagnie
Publication date:	06/11/2015
Sold by:	EDITIS - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	419
File size:	2 MB
Language:	French

About the Author

Philippa Gregory, author of the bestselling Wideacre trilogy and other celebrated historical novels, holds a B.A. in history and a Ph.D. in 18th-century literature. In her youth, however, the meticulous writer-researcher almost skipped going to university (she was, as she put it, "a bit of a rebel at school"). When she finally did enroll at Sussex University, she took a course taught by the historian Maurice Hutt, and the rest is -- what else? -- history.

"It was such a powerful experience that, really, it transformed my life," she explained in an interview with The Guardian. "I was looking for something that would explain everything -- I was that kind of earnest young woman! -- and history seemed to be able to do that."

Gregory earned her degree from Sussex, then traveled to Edinburgh to research 18th-century popular novels. The research spawned both a Ph.D. thesis and Gregory's first novel, Wideacre, which was a New York Times bestseller. It came, Gregory pointed out in a Barnes and Noble interview, "at a time when people wanted a new sort of historical fiction: more realistic, more radical, more sexy, and harder edged. That's how I see the world, so I never wrote for a market, I always wrote to reflect my own view of the period, and it has been phenomenally successful."

After extending Wideacre into a trilogy, Gregory continued to write fiction, delving into 16th-century witchcraft , 17th-century political turmoil, and 18th-century slave trading, as well as exploring contemporary life.

But while Gregory -- in her own view and in the views of many critics -- continued to improve as a writer, none of her books matched the popular success of Wideacre until she wrote The Other Boleyn Girl, a provocative tale of sexual politics in the court of Henry VIII, and The Queen's Fool, the story of a 14-year-old Jewish girl brought to the court of Queen Mary. Both novels became bestsellers and widely acclaimed storytelling tour de forces.

Gregory continues to mine the territory of Tudor England for stories -- and she continues with her historical research, building up an ever more dazzling, daring and complete picture of the period. "Accuracy is very important to me because I have a total commitment to history," Gregory told The Guardian. "It answered my deepest questions, of which, I suppose, the most profound is: `Why am I here?' Understanding your history can tell you that. It's how I understand who I am and where I came from. I would never lie to anyone about history."

Hometown:

Yorkshire, England

Date of Birth:

January 9, 1954

Place of Birth:

Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa

Education:

B.A. in history, Sussex University, 1982; Ph.D., 18th-century popular fiction, Edinburgh, 1984

Website:

http://www.PhilippaGregory.com