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The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by: Pamela Kaufman List Price: £8.35 City Travel Guides Price: £7.62 You Save: £0.73 ( 9%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780609808092 ISBN: 0609808095 Label: Three Rivers Press (CA) Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press (CA) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 560 Publication Date: 2003-03 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Studio: Three Rivers Press (CA) Sales Rank: 823375 Related Items: Related Items:  see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - An historical injusticeEleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of both France and England, Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, was one of the most fascinating and glittering figures of the entire medieval period. As such, she deserves a fictional biography that does her justice. Pamela Kaufman's "Book of Eleanor" is not that book. Kaufman's Eleanor comes across as one-dimensional, and is believable neither as a royal personage nor a woman of her particular time or place. Her behaviour and speech are more those of a spoiled, nasty, modern teenager. It is clear that Kaufman wishes us to admire Eleanor, but this charecter so grated on my nerves that I wanted nothing so much as to smack her. Both Kings Louis Capet and Henry Plantagenet (as well as assorted other males) come ... Read More: |
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