| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 501 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edward Hyde; THE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR: EXTRACTS FROM: THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND THE LIFE; CLARENDON BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR: EXTRACTS FROM: THE LIFE; Explanatory Notes; Biographical Register |
| Summary |
Clarendon's History chonicles the English Civil War from the perspective of someone intimately involved in the events he describes. This classic work is admired for its literary quality as well as its historical value; this new selection also contains passages from The Life, Clarendon's autobiography, to produce a vivid narrative history. - ;'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.'Clarendon's massive History has s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxviii]-xxix) |
| Notes |
Includes passages from The life, Clarendon's autobiography |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056796
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Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056792
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seaward, Paul.
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Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.
Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon
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| ISBN |
9780191567360 |
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0191567361 |
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9780199228171 |
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0199228175 |
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