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Title Statement | The iron king / Maurice Druon ; translated from French by Humphrey Hare. |
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Series | Rois maudits |
Author | Druon, Maurice, 1918-2009 |
Publication | London: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,2013. |
Extent of Item | xxiv, 340 pages |
ISBN | 9780007491261 0007491263 |
General Notes | "First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis 1956"--Title page verso. Novel. |
Languages | Translated from the French. |
Summary | "The Iron King--Philip the Fair--is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men. A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques de Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty ..."-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Kings and rulers--Fiction |
Blessing and cursing--Fiction | |
Family life--Fiction | |
By Location | France--Fiction--History--Philip IV, 1285-1314 |
France--Fiction--History--Philip IV, 1285-1314 | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |