{"product_id":"elizabethans-book-a-n-wilson-9781250033390","title":"The Elizabethans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Wilson's hands these familiar stories make for gripping reading.--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor of \u003ci\u003eDante in Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping panorama of the Elizabethan age, a time of remarkable, strange personages and great political and social change, by one of our most renowned historians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation, larger-than-life royalty and political expansion, the Elizabethan age was also more remarkable than any other for the Technicolor personalities of its royals and subjects. Apart from the complex character of the Virgin Queen herself, A. N. Wilson's \u003ci\u003eThe Elizabethans\u003c\/i\u003e follows the stories of Francis Drake, a privateer who not only defeated the Spanish Armada but also circumnavigated the globe with a drunken, mutinous crew and without reliable navigational instruments; political intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham; and Renaissance literary geniuses from Sir Philip Sidney to Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost crucially, this was the age when modern Britain was born and established independence from mainland Europe--both in its resistance to Spanish and French incursions and in its declaration of religious liberty from the pope--and laid the foundations for the explosion of British imperial power and eventual American domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn acknowledged master of the all-encompassing single-volume history, Wilson tells the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan era with all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e, and with the wit and iconoclasm that are his trademarks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50156557762833,"sku":"CIN125003339XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51094962897169,"sku":"GOR005959679","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/125003339X.jpg?v=1751435665","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/elizabethans-book-a-n-wilson-9781250033390","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}