Now is the Time / Melvyn Bragg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bragg, Melvyn, 1939- author.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tyler's Insurrection, 1381--Fiction.

Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.

History.

Plague.

Great Britain.

England.

Plague--England--History--Fiction.

Great Britain--History--Richard II, 1377-1399--Fiction.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Fiction.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

368 pages ; 23 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

London : Sceptre, 2015.

Summary:

At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian Poll Tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two weeks, the unthinkable happened: a vast force of common people invaded London, led by a former soldier, Walter Tyler, and the radical preacher John Ball, demanding freedom, equality and the complete uprooting of the Church and State. They believed they were rescuing the King from his corrupt ministers, and that England had to be saved. And for three intense, violent days, it looked as if they would sweep all before them. In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life on both a grand and intimate scale, vividly portraying its central figures. It is an archetypal tale of an epic struggle between the powerful and the apparently powerless.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781473614529

9781473614536

147361452X

1473614538

OCLC:

922929480

Publisher Number:

99965861285