- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape (6 May 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224080644
- ISBN-13: 978-0224080644
- Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.6 x 24 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 318,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`stirring and eloquent account of the Stuarts'
--Scotland on Sunday
'A highly readable and impressively panoramic history' -- The Scotsman
`This is old-fashioned history, story-centred, monarch-focused, often judgemental. Yet these aspects are part of this saga's compelling readability...' -- FT
'Lively and jauntily paced history' -- Sunday Times
'arguments and issues, and the storyteller's gift for picking out... key actions or remarks...bring a person's character to life.' -- Sunday Telegraph
`[Massie] combines dry wit and fondness for well constructed sentences with a novelist's sense of the enlivening detail.' -- Daily Express
'A pleasure to read and psychologically compelling' -- The Spectator
"It drips with blood, cruelty and tears... Evocative, visceral - haunting"
--Daily Telegraph
`To read the Stuart story delivered as strongly and as plainly as this is unexpectedly exhilarating and full of anticipations of more recent national and political history.' --The Observer, Brian Morton
--Scotland on Sunday
'A highly readable and impressively panoramic history' -- The Scotsman
`This is old-fashioned history, story-centred, monarch-focused, often judgemental. Yet these aspects are part of this saga's compelling readability...' -- FT
'Lively and jauntily paced history' -- Sunday Times
'arguments and issues, and the storyteller's gift for picking out... key actions or remarks...bring a person's character to life.' -- Sunday Telegraph
`[Massie] combines dry wit and fondness for well constructed sentences with a novelist's sense of the enlivening detail.' -- Daily Express
'A pleasure to read and psychologically compelling' -- The Spectator
"It drips with blood, cruelty and tears... Evocative, visceral - haunting"
--Daily Telegraph
`To read the Stuart story delivered as strongly and as plainly as this is unexpectedly exhilarating and full of anticipations of more recent national and political history.' --The Observer, Brian Morton
Book Description
Ever since the descendants of the House of Stuart arrived in England they have been intimately linked with the history of Britain. Allan Massie, in this new Biography, traces their arrival, rise to the throne of England and Scotland, and scandals in their long and influential affair with British history.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having paid E30 for the 'The Royal Stuarts', I had high hopes--which were quickly dashed the moment I opened it. It's not that I don't like Massie's style. It's just that the facts are extraordinarily muddled. Queen Anne is lauded as the first English monarch 'since [Elizabeth I] to have spent all her life in England, except for one visit to Scotland'. How do I put this gently? Not only did Anne spend 1668-1670 in France, she also visited Belgium (then called the Spanish Netherlands). And again: 'In 1691 [Anne] wrote to James [II] asking for his forgiveness. James was not impressed; no forgiveness was forthcoming.' While Mr Massie is entitled to his analysis, I, and many others, I'm sure, interpret James's reply--'I am confident that [Anne] is truly penitent since [Anne] tells me so' (Gregg, p 84)--to mean that he was impressed.
Such sweeping assertions are typical of this book, and I could point keep pointing out its inaccuracies and errors. But that would be pointless.
Such sweeping assertions are typical of this book, and I could point keep pointing out its inaccuracies and errors. But that would be pointless.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A book which a tells the story of the Royal Stuarts almost like a novel. It rips along giving details of each monarchs life, the trials and tribulations, the successes, the political and social backgrounds. It is not a dry academic tome swamped in detail but can be easily read and will give you a real insight to the individuals especially if you have not studied this period of Scottish history or you did it decades ago. Allan Massie gives his own assessment of each of the monarchs which you may agree with or disagree with because of your own prejudices.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Nothing new in this at all just a rehash of known facts about the stuarts. Would have been better to buy books about some of the individuals herin. Did not enjoy this book at all. Not a patch on Allan Massie's other novels. Will be more careful when reading write-ups. Will try and read the books in the local library before deciding to buy.
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In writing his book about the Royal Stuarts, Allan Massie does not try to overwhelm the reader with a plethora of facts. Read more
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