Queen of Scots The True Life of Mary Stuart

Name: Queen of Scots The True Life of Mary Stuart
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ISBN: 9780618619177

ISBN-10: 0618619178

ISBN-13: 9780618619177

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Guy

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In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than thirty years, John Guy creates an intimate, gripping portrait of one of history"s greatest women and depicts her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Queen of Scots as a romantic leading lady--achieving her ends through feminine wiles -- and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. Through Guy"s pioneering research and "fabulously readable" prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/12/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.48" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Genealogies


Maps


Prologue



The First Year



The Rough Wooings



Arrival in France



Adolescence



Education



A Dynastic Marriage



Betrayed Queen



Return to Scotland



Into the Labyrinth



A Meeting Between Sisters



A Search for a Husband



"My Heart Is My Own"



A Marriage of Convenience



Enter Bothwell



A Marriage in Trouble



Assassination One



Reconciliation



Plot and Counterplot



Assassination Two



A Love Match?



Denouement in Scotland



Mary's Story



Bothwell's Story



The Lords' Story



Casket Letters I



Casket Letters II



Captive Queen



An Ax or an Act?



Nemesis



The Final Hours


Epilogue


Chronology


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Illustration Credits