Christina, Queen of Sweden The Restless Life of a European Eccentric

Name: Christina, Queen of Sweden The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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ISBN: 9780060736187

ISBN-10: 0060736186

ISBN-13: 9780060736187

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Authors: Veronica Buckley

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Not unlike the elusive figure played by Greta Garbo, the real Queen Christina stood among the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the seventeenth century. All of Sweden could not contain her ambition or quench her thirst for adventure. Freed from her crown, she cut a breathtaking path across Europe -- spending madly, seeking out a more majestic throne, and stirring up trouble wherever she went. With a dazzling narrative voice and unerring sense of the period, Veronica Buckley goes beyond historical myth to breathe life into an extraordinary woman who set the world on fire and became an icon of her age -- a time of enormous change when Europe stood at the crossroads of religion and…

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List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/27/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Veronica Buckley is the author of Queen Christina and Madame de Maintenon .



Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Genealogy





Prologue


Birth of a Prince


Death of a King


The Little Queen


Love and Learning


Acorn Beneath an Oak


Warring and Peace


Pallas of the North


Tragedy and Comedy


Hollow Crown


The Road to Rome


Abdication





Crossing the Rubicon


Rome at Last


Love Again


Fair Wind for France


The Rising Sun


Fontainebleau


Aftermath


Old Haunts, New Haunts


Debacle


Mirages


Glory Days


Journey's End


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index