The Life and Times of Charles II

Book Club Associates, London, 1972. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 223 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped from our local warehouse. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.. Charles II was the most popular of Kings in his lifetime and has remained so to posterity. In this biography of 'the Merry Monarch', Christopher Falkus seeks to show why this is so and indicates that the secret lay not so much in the positive achievements of his reign, as in the essentially human qualities which set him apart from other sovereigns. But Charles, of course, was more than a witty, tolerant, urbane man; he was a ruler of three kingdoms - England, Scotland and Ireland - who came to the throne after years of exhausting Civil War and whose first purpose was to reunite his war torn realms. His was a lifetime crowded with struggle and conflict in which he triumphed to preside over a society whose creative achievements in all fields are almost unparalleled in history. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 6059. .