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A Gambling Man: Charles II and The Restoration by Jenny Uglow (Hardback, 2009)

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A Gambling Man is Uglow at her best: both a vivid portrait of Charles II that explores his elusive nature and a spirited evocation of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world on the brink of modernity. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the "slippery sovereign," laid odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers.

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Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was going back, way he could 'restore' the old. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship fled with his father's beheading. 'Hour' was w a word tossed around in duels. 'Providence' could longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. Exactly ten years later Charles would stand again on the shore at Dover, laying the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV. The Restoration decade was one of experiment: from the science of the Royal Society to the startling role of credit and risk, from the shocking licence of the court to the failed attempts at toleration of different beliefs. Negotiating all these, Charles, the 'slippery sovereign', layed odds. Yet while his grandeur, his court and his colourful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. A Gambling Man is a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years - and a portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, in which the risks the king took forged the fate of the nation, on the brink of the modern world.

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PublisherFaber & Faber

ISBN-100571217338

ISBN-139780571217335

UPC9780571217335

eBay Product ID (ePID)96347090

Product Key Features

AuthorJenny Uglow

FormatHardback

LanguageEnglish

TopicBiography: Royalty

Publication Year2009

TypeBiography

GenreBiography: Royalty

Dimensions

Weight1085g

Depth48 mm

Height240mm

Width165mm

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication01/10/2009

Place of PublicationLondon

Spine48mm

Content NoteIllustrations, Maps, Ports.

RegionWorld

PrizesShortlisted for Bbc Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2010.

Author BiographyJenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now works in publishing. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007 and A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. Her most recent book In These Times, a comprehensive history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars, was described as 'a remarkable book written by an award-winning historian at the peak of her powers'. She lives in Canterbury.

Recommended Age Range0-12 months

Dimensions240x165x48mm

Series0571217338

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom