The Awful End of Prince William the Silent - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007192584 ISBN 13: 9780007192588

Publisher: HarperPerennial, 2006

Synopsis

A brilliantly detailed and gripping account of the assassination in 1584 of Prince William of Orange, and the shockwaves it sent through an age.

About this title

About the Author:

Lisa Jardine CBE is Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge. She writes and reviews for all the major UK national newspapers and magazines and for the 'Washington Post', and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She is a regular writer and presenter of 'A Point of View', on BBC Radio 4. She judged many important literary prizes including the 2000 Orwell Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize. She is the author of a number of best-selling general books, including 'Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance', 'Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution', and biographies of Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Lisa Jardine is married to the architect John Hare and has three children.

Review:

`Jardine's book is masterly, because she captures in a snapshot the mood or ethos of the era. She draws on archives, literature, science and art to paint images as richly evocative as a Rembrandt. This is very much a book for our time.' Sunday Times`Ingenious...a refreshing foray into an area often neglected by historians.' Independent`An enthralling train ride of a book, light, swift and perfectly prepared...An engrossing spritely read.' Observer`Lisa Jardine has written with her typical flair, the prehistory of our haunted obsession with the handgun.' Scotland on Sunday`Recounts the events leading up to [Prince William's] death with concision and clarity.' Financial Times`Lively and thought-provoking; the perfect length for an evening read.' Sunday Telegraph`Nobody can explain factual history more clearly than Jardine.' The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0007192584
• ISBN 13: 9780007192588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144