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Chargement... Les maîtres d'Ecosse (2011)par Robyn Young
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. On the whole, this one felt a bit sprawling, but I enjoyed reading a historical novel about Scotland for a change. ( ) This is a great start to what should be an in-depth look at the life of Robert the Bruce. Robyn Young brought Robert to life and gave him some great and realistic motivations behind the actions the history books tell us. Well-researched, well-written, and wide-ranging. I look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy! * I received this book for free from Goodreads First Reads. This is the first in a trilogy about Robert the Bruce, King of the Scots. In this first book, we meet him as a youth and witness the events that shape his childhood and early manhood. I found this a confusing book, possibly because I had already read Nigel Tranter's excellent trilogy about the Bruce, which starts with him as an adult. I was constantly trying to reconcile what I already knew with the information being presented in the book. The length of the book also put me off for some reason; it is a massive trade paperback and for some reason it felt longer than the Tranter books, which are mass market paperback and have about the same page count. And although I liked some set pieces (Alexander III's death and the Maid of Norway's voyage were well done, with the latter being especially chilling), overall the writing just didn't hook me for some reason. I'm going to have to set this trilogy aside for the foreseeable future. In the 13th century King Edward the First of England has conquered Wales and now sets his sights on Scotland. After the convenient death of the Scottish King Edward invades and sets up a new puppet monarch. The Scottish nobles are not happy but fight amongst themselves. One family of powerful nobles with a claim to the throne are the Bruce family and this book follows the story of Robert Bruce from childhood through service to the king and finally through to exile after supporting William Wallace. As this is the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn there has been much about Bruce in the media and as someone with an interest in medieval history I thought to give this book a go. It's a weighty tome and obviously well-researched but it just didn't grab my attention as much as it could have done. The difficulty with historical fiction is melding fictional characterisation to historical facts and that is where Young's writing falls down for me. However I have bought the second book in the series so I will continue the story! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Caracteristiques des saints dans l'art populaire. T. 2, G etc. / enumerees et expliquees par le P. Ch. Cahier, ...Date de l'edition originale: 1867Sujet de l'ouvrage: Saints chretiens -- Dans l'art -- DictionnairesArt populaire -- France -- Themes, motifsArt populaire -- France -- Moyen age -- DictionnairesCe livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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