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Book Henry the Young King  1155 1183

Download or read book Henry the Young King 1155 1183 written by Matthew Strickland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet, consistently denied direct rule, the Young King was provoked first into heading a major rebellion against his father, then to waging a bitter war against his brother Richard for control of Aquitaine, dying before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. In this remarkable history, Matthew Strickland provides a richly colored portrait of an all-but-forgotten royal figure tutored by Thomas Becket, trained in arms by the great knight William Marshal, and incited to rebellion by his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, while using his career to explore the nature of kingship, succession, dynastic politics, and rebellion in twelfth-century England and France.

Book Young King  Young King

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  • Author : Justin Sims
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-05-13
  • ISBN : 9781097631940
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Young King Young King written by Justin Sims and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young King, Young King will help reinforce positive character traits, and help serve as a guide for Young Kings of all ages. Young King, Young King, is a timeless go to book filled with positive seeds and affirmations that will stick with readers for life.

Book Young King

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  • Author : Dexter A Powell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-02
  • ISBN : 9781952926174
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Young King written by Dexter A Powell and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the journey of 12-year-young Dexter Powell Jr. who fell into a food addiction that led to events that derailed Dexter's life. One bad decision and an act of violence committed on a dreary afternoon cost him everything, in one instant.

Book The Young King

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  • Author : Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher : Modernista
  • Release : 2024-05-30
  • ISBN : 9180949428
  • Pages : 17 pages

Download or read book The Young King written by Oscar Wilde and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »The Young King« is a short story by Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1891. OSCAR WILDE, born in 1854 in Dublin, died in 1900 in Paris, was an Irish prose writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Wilde's significance as a symbol for persecuted homosexuals around the world is immeasurable. Wilde himself was sentenced to prison and hard labour, his works were boycotted, theatrical productions were shut down, and he was publicly vilified. The Picture of Dorian Gray [1890] is his most famous work.

Book The Young King

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  • Author : Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-04-28
  • ISBN : 0061923192
  • Pages : 27 pages

Download or read book The Young King written by Oscar Wilde and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Stephen Crane to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Simon Van Booy's forthcoming collection, LOVE BEGINS IN WINTER, will be printed at the back of this volume.

Book Young King Arthur And The Round Table Knights

Download or read book Young King Arthur And The Round Table Knights written by Siryn Sueng and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no reason for Arthur to think he would ever become king.A peasant and son of a baker, Arthur grew up in the castle town of Camelot. When he attended the Choosing Ceremony, it was merely to see who would draw the Holy Sword, Excalibur-to see who would inherit the throne of the recently departed King Uther. He never expected the sword would choose him...But it did.Now, at the young age of fourteen, he has become King Arthur, and for all the power he has gained, he has made just as many enemies. Surrounded by the Knights of the Round Table, and led by the mysterious mage, Merlin, Arthur is grateful for his allies, though he would just as soon return to his old life. Surely, someone more worthy should be chosen as king.Arthur is in the middle of chaos, a world where everyone wants more than they let on, where many hate the idea of a young boy with no noble background being crowned king; where cold stares and whispered words are just as sharp as an assassin's blade.As Arthur fends for his life, he must draw on the strength of his knights, especially fifteen-year-old Mordred, who becomes closer to him than the mere bounds of duty. He must become king, not just in name, but in his heart.And he must do it quickly, because his enemies want more than just his crown...

Book Adventures with Young King Arthur

Download or read book Adventures with Young King Arthur written by Kevin Stites and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Young King

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  • Author : Erika Martin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-10
  • ISBN : 9781737585800
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book Young King written by Erika Martin and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You were made to be great, different, and smart- Just use your brain and listen to your heart. It's important to always act like a king. And this can mean a whole lot of things... "Young King" is an inspirational illustrated poem for young boys reminding them they are royalty! This sweet inspirational book encourages young boys to be good people, embrace their differences and be proud to be themselves.

Book The Arabian Nights

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  • Author : Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Arabian Nights written by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.

Book The Boy King

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  • Author : Janet Wertman
  • Publisher : Janet Wertman
  • Release : 2020-09-30
  • ISBN : 0997133880
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The Boy King written by Janet Wertman and published by Janet Wertman. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Open Letters Review's Ten Best Historical Novels of 2020; First Place Winner, 2021 Chaucer Award for pre-1750s historical fiction "Highly recommend both as a standalone and series read. Wertman's work is among the best Tudor fiction on the market" - Historical Fiction Reader His mother, Jane Seymour, died at his birth; now his father, King Henry VIII, has died as well. Nine-year-old Edward Tudor ascends to the throne of England and quickly learns that he cannot trust anyone, even himself. Struggling to understand the political and religious turmoil that threatens the realm, Edward is at first relieved that his uncle, the new Duke of Somerset, will act on his behalf as Lord Protector, but this consolation evaporates as jealousy spreads through the court. Challengers arise on all sides to wrest control of the child king, and through him, England. While Edward can bring frustratingly little direction to the Council's policies, he refuses to abandon his one firm conviction: that Catholicism has no place in England. When Edward falls ill, this steadfast belief threatens England's best hope for a smooth succession: the transfer of the throne to Edward's very Catholic half-sister, Mary Tudor, whose heart's desire is to return the realm to the way it worshipped in her mother's day.

Book The Boy Who Would Be King

Download or read book The Boy Who Would Be King written by Ryan Holiday and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's one of the most incredible stories in all of history. A young boy, out of nowhere, is chosen to be the emperor of most of the known world. What he learned, what he did, who he was, would echo in eternity. In 138 AD, Hadrian, the emperor of Rome, chose Marcus Aurelius to succeed him. He knew no one was born ready for the job, so he arranged for the young boy's education. The greatest philosophers of the day were assigned to teach him, and all threw themselves at the almost inhuman task of preparing someone for absolute power. It's a parable for life, really. The gods, fate, someone chooses something for us, calls us to something. Will we answer? Will we step up? Will we achieve the greatness within us? Marcus Aurelius did. Absolute power not only didn't corrupt, it made him better. We marvel at him centuries later--this man who thought he would not be remembered, that posthumous fame was worthless--stands today more famous than ever. A hero to millions."--Dailystoic.com

Book Grumpy Little King

Download or read book Grumpy Little King written by Michel Streich and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Streich's witty text and amusing illustrations make this a perfect picture book for parents and children to share.

Book Dig

    Dig

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  • Author : A.S. King
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2020-06-30
  • ISBN : 1101994932
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Dig written by A.S. King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.

Book The Young King and Other Stories

Download or read book The Young King and Other Stories written by Michael West and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic / British English Strange and wonderful things happen in t seven short stories. Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of kings and queens, mermaids and witches, giants and dwarfs, and talking animals. Exciting and amusing, happy and sad, these stories are for all ages.

Book The Boy and the Boy King

Download or read book The Boy and the Boy King written by George H. Lewish and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wonder and imagination are at the heart of this story of a friendship between a boy from New York City and the boy king, Tutankhamun A boy and his stuffed bunny gaze at a star-lit New York cityscape. The great Sphinx of Egypt sleeps. A child swings joyously across a river. This book offers a tantalizing glimpse of the adventures of Arthur and his imaginary friend, Bun-Bun. Together they travel through the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum to another time and place and befriend the lonely boy king, Tutankhamun.

Book Young Martin Luther King  Jr

Download or read book Young Martin Luther King Jr written by Joanne Mattern and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple biography of a great black leader emphasizing his dream of equal treatment for all Americans.

Book The King with Six Friends

Download or read book The King with Six Friends written by Jay Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding himself without a kingdom, a king goes into the world to improve his fortunes and finds six friends whose special skills help him to get what he wants most.