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A carregar... The Last Prince of the Mexican Empirepor C. M. Mayo
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. In this book, the author combines an incredibly rich attention to detail, enabled by her extensive research, and a unique imagination. These two elements have allowed C.M. Mayo to construct a realistic and yet exciting historical fiction based in a little-known and under-studied area of Mexican history, that period of the French Intervention. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in history. A true page turner! ( ) Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing. This is a very strange book. The subject matter is interesting and the characters are colorful. But it is almost unreadable, not because it is "difficult" but because it is "easy". The fairy-tale like style is terribly distracting. You keep thinking, "this must be some sort of pose and the author's going to drop it soon." But she doesn't. It reminds me of one of the most bizarre television performances I've ever seen: Timothy Bottoms in the mini-series of "East of Eden." His amateur-theatrical acting style was so exaggerated as to seem incredible. Incredible that he would have performed this way and incredible that the studio would broadcast it. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a sweeping historical novel of Mexico during the short, tragic, at times surreal, reign of Emperor Maximilian and his court. Even as the American Civil War raged north of the border, a clique of Mexican conservative exiles and clergy convinced Louis Napoleon to invade Mexico and install the Archduke of Austria, Maximilian von Habsburg, as Emperor. A year later, the childless Maximilian took custody of the two year old, half-American, Prince Agustìn de Iturbide y Green, making the toddler the Heir Presumptive. Maximilian’s reluctance to return the child to his distraught parents, even as his empire began to fall, and the Empress Carlota descended into madness, ignited an international scandal. This lush, grand read is based on the true story and illuminates both the cultural roots of Mexico and the political development of the Americas. But it is made all the more captivating by the depth of Mayo’s writing and her understanding of the pressures and influences on these all too human players. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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