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Aug 12, 1774 — Mar 21, 1843· 68 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AUTHOR · HISTORY · POETRY

Robert Southey

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englischer Dichter, Geschichtsschreiber und Kritiker

Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham Town, a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood.

— from Robin Hood, 1973

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Joan of Arc

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In a distinguished English translation by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams from the best-selling French edition, Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin's Joan of Arc: Her Story appears for the first time in an edition for an American audience. The story of Joan of Arc has fascinated readers for centuries: As a young girl in rural France, Joan heard the voices of Saints Catherine, Margaret, and Michael telling her that the Dauphin was God's choice for the throne of France. Unquestioningly, Joan left her family to lead the army of the Dauphin against the English and defeated them, thereby putting Charles VII on the throne. From the image of an obscure French peasant girl who led the army of the Dauphin, to the icon of a saint burned at the stake by an English-controlled church, Joan has been a blank slate on which thousands have written their obsessions, their fears, and their hopes. In Adams's magisterial translation, Pernoud and Clin clear away the myths, allowing modern readers to see Joan as she was. Adams has added a great deal of material not in the original French edition, including a new preface and additional entries to the glossary, which provides portraits of the important historical figures that affected Joan, descriptions of the historical occurrences, and synopses of interpretations of Joan through the ages. Joan of Arc: Her Story is an affecting and absolutely thrilling life of a woman who influences us even to this day. - Back cover.

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The English reformation

1879

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Henry VIII officially brought the Protestant Reformation to England in the 1530s when he severed the English Church from the Papacy. But the seeds of the movement, according to A.G. Dickens, were planted much earlier. The English Reformation, first published in 1964, follows the movement from its late medieval origins through the settlement of Elizabeth I in 1559 and the rise of Puritanism.

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Robin Hood

1973

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Geronimo Stilton, cet intellectuel sensible et raffiné qui dirige "L'écho des rongeurs", se propose ici de raconter à ses admirateurs les grands classiques de la littérature pour la jeunesse qui ont bercé son enfance et qui l'ont fait voyager dans des contrées aussi fabuleuses qu'exotiques. Chaque opus de la série fait donc revivre un chef-d'oeuvre littéraire, dont les protagonistes se voient conférer les traits de rongeurs humanisés. Sous ce titre: les aventures épiques de Robin des bois, ce légendaire brigand au coeur d'or qui se fait un honneur de réparer les injustices commises par le prince Jean Sans Terre et le shérif de Nottingham en l'absence du bon roi Richard Coeur de Lion. Révolté de constater que le perfide duo s'enrichit au profit d'un peuple accablé d'impôts et réduit à une existence miséreuse, Robin se réfugie dans la forêt de Sherwood en compagnie de Petit Jean et de frère Tuck, avec l'aide desquels il met sur pied une armée de hors-la-loi qui se fait l'ardente défenderesse des opprimés, détroussant les riches pour redistribuer leurs richesses aux pauvres et aux orphelins. Et ce, en recourant à de savants déguisements et stratagèmes qui attisent la frustration de leurs victimes une fois dévoilés ... Geronimo Stilton raconte les grands classiques de la littérature de jeunesse.

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