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Mr. Goodman the Player
ISBN: 9780822983880 / Angielski / Miękka / 1964 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Famous as an actor with the King s Company in London during the Restoration, Cardell Goodman epitomized one of the most colorful ages in English history. Goodman was admitted to St. John s College, Cambridge at age 13, and, upon graduation, became an actor in the King s Company. To supplement his meager acting income, he took up highway robbery and was captured then pardoned by King Charles. About 1684, he became the lover of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, former mistress of King Charles, and spent the next ten years living in luxury as her Master of the Horse, occasionally accepting... Famous as an actor with the King s Company in London during the Restoration, Cardell Goodman epitomized one of the most colorful ages in English hi... |
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The Ordeal of Mr. Pepys's Clerk
ISBN: 9780814253601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sam Atkins, an engaging young clerk on the staff of Mr. Samuel Pepys during the time that the famous diarist first served as secretary to the Lord High Admiral of England, rose from obscurity to fame on one memorable, terrifying occasion. At the age of twenty-one, Sam was accused of complicity in the Popish Plot, that ingenious fabrication of the infamous Titus Oates, which brought a hysterical nation to the verge of panic, and profoundly influenced the literature and history of Restoration England. Summoned without warning on Friday, November 1, 1678, to the office in Whitehall of the...
Sam Atkins, an engaging young clerk on the staff of Mr. Samuel Pepys during the time that the famous diarist first served as secretary to the Lord Hig...
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