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Privy Seal: His Last Venture (Paperback)
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Privy Seal: His Last Venture (Paperback)
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Privy Seal: His Last Venture (1907) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford.
The second installment of Ford's The Fifth Queen Trilogy is set
during the reign of Henry VIII, a tumultuous time of political and
religious oppression in a land at the mercy of a murderous King.
Ford's trilogy recreates Tudor England in a masterful story of
court intrigue, romance, and betrayal. Focusing on the tragic
figure of Katharine Howard, the fifth wife of the King, Ford
investigates the interconnection of sex and power in a political
atmosphere clouded by violence and espionage. Depicting some of the
era's most notorious figures, including Thomas Cromwell, Bloody
Mary, and the King himself, Ford makes history both entertaining
and undeniably human. Brought to the court of King Henry VIII by
her cousin Thomas Culpeper, Katharine Howard, a noblewoman whose
family's fortunes had been in decline for some time, inadvertently
catches the eye of his majesty. Given a position as a lady in
waiting for Lady Mary, Howard-though opposed by the brutally
efficient schemer Thomas Cromwell-soon distinguishes herself in the
eyes of the King, who makes her his fifth Queen. Thrust into the
spotlight at the age of seventeen, she finds herself forced into an
impossible role as a public figure whose every move could enrage
her notoriously violent husband. Howard has traditionally been seen
as a minor figure in the history of Tudor England. For Ford,
however, a master storyteller with an eye for tragedy and a skill
for developing flawed, convincingly human characters, Howard is a
woman whose life and death are not only worthy of literature, but
instructive for the men and women of Edwardian England. In Privy
Seal, he focuses on the figure of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful
advisor to the King who comes to see Katharine as a rival whose
good nature threatens his ambitious political agenda. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Ford Madox Ford's Privy Seal: His Last Venture is a
classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
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