The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0609808095
ISBN 13
9780609808092
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
544
Subject
Eleanor, -- of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, -- 1122?-1204 -- Fiction. Henry -- II, -- King of England, -- 1133-1189 -- Fiction. Louis -- VII, -- King of France, -- approximately 1120-1180 -- Fiction.
Abstract
A historical novel chronicles the life and times of the legendary queen Eleanor of Aquitaine as she reflects on her eventful and turbulent life in the political and cultural spotlight as the wife of two powerful kings.
Description
Synopsis
Many know Eleanor of Aquitaine's story from Katharine Hepburn's Oscar-winning role in The Lion in Winter and from Alison Weir's bestselling biography. Now readers will know Eleanor from another perspective in The Book of Eleanor, the only historical novel in print about this remarkable woman's life.
In a first-person narrative reminiscent of Margaret George's Autobiography of Henry VIII, Pamela Kaufman's Eleanor speaks directly to the reader, conveying with vivid immediacy her wit, passion, intelligence, and political savvy.
And what a story she tells -- of her political marriages to the fanatically jealous Louis VII of France and the cruel and ruthless Henry II of England, her longing for the nobleman who was her childhood love, her role in a long and dangerous crusade, her perilous involvement in her sons' armed rebellion against their father, and her long years of imprisonment during which she wrote, as Kaufman imagines it, this memoir, The Book of Eleanor.
About the Author
Pamela Kaufman, Ph.D., is the author of the bestselling medieval novels Shield of Three Lions and Banners of Gold. She lives in Los Angeles.
Many know Eleanor of Aquitaine's story from Katharine Hepburn's Oscar-winning role in The Lion in Winter and from Alison Weir's bestselling biography. Now readers will know Eleanor from another perspective in The Book of Eleanor, the only historical novel in print about this remarkable woman's life.
In a first-person narrative reminiscent of Margaret George's Autobiography of Henry VIII, Pamela Kaufman's Eleanor speaks directly to the reader, conveying with vivid immediacy her wit, passion, intelligence, and political savvy.
And what a story she tells -- of her political marriages to the fanatically jealous Louis VII of France and the cruel and ruthless Henry II of England, her longing for the nobleman who was her childhood love, her role in a long and dangerous crusade, her perilous involvement in her sons' armed rebellion against their father, and her long years of imprisonment during which she wrote, as Kaufman imagines it, this memoir, The Book of Eleanor.
About the Author
Pamela Kaufman, Ph.D., is the author of the bestselling medieval novels Shield of Three Lions and Banners of Gold. She lives in Los Angeles.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Eleanor, of Aquitaine Queen consort of Henry II King of England; Eleanor, of Aquitaine Queen consort of Henry II King of England
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Pamela Kaufman
ISBN: 0609808095 : PAP 9780609808092 : PAP
OCLC Number: 566481562
Description: 539 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: Pamela Kaufman.
Fiction
Named Person: Eleanor, of Aquitaine Queen consort of Henry II King of England; Eleanor, of Aquitaine Queen consort of Henry II King of England
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Pamela Kaufman
ISBN: 0609808095 : PAP 9780609808092 : PAP
OCLC Number: 566481562
Description: 539 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: Pamela Kaufman.
Number of Copies
1
