Prințesa statornică

by Philippa Gregory

Overview

E cunoscută drept soția stearpă a unui rege puternic, dar în spatele acestei imagini se ascunde o poveste seducătoare. Katherine de Aragon este Infanta Spaniei, născută din stirpe de războinici, din părinți cu sânge nobil. La nici patru ani ea e făgăduită unui Prinț de Wales, lui Arthur, și crescută ca viitoare Regină a Angliei. Nu are nici o fărâmă de îndoială că soarta o va aduce la curtea unei țări de la capătul lumii, o țară rece și uitată de Dumnezeu. Arthur este încă un copil când se întâlnesc; obiceiurile noii ei lumi sunt aspre, mâncarea e ciudată, ca și oamenii, care o privesc cu răceală. Încet-încet își uită însă temerile, viața devine mai ușoară; dar Arthur moare de timpuriu și Katherine e din nou în voia sorții. Visul ei de a conduce un regat se întunecă iar. Salvarea va veni însă de la Henric, răsfățatul și mai tânărul frate al lui Arthur, cu care Katherine se va căsători. Curtea regală se împotrivește, părinții îi sunt prea puțin de ajutor. Katherine nu-și dezminte însă stirpea războinică: va face orice să-și împlinească visul, va minți dacă va fi nevoie și va muri mințind, dar va fi soția viitorului Henric al VIII-lea și Regina Angliei.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789734653904
Publisher:	Polirom
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Series:	Biblioteca Polirom
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Romanian

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