The Fall of Mary Stuart
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Mumby, Frank Arthur) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Fall of Mary Stuart: A Narrative in Contemporary Letters Difficult as was my earlier attempt to steer an undisputed course through the labyrinth of contemporary correspondence relating to the beginning of the feud between Elizabeth and Mary Stuart, it was simplicity itself in comparison with the present task. If I have not succeeded in avoiding all the snares and pitfalls, I can at least claim that in re-stating the case in my own way I have set down naught in malice, and added nothing to the mass of unsupported theories and legends which have confused the issue for centuries past. It is like looking on with living eyes at the drama of Mary Stuart to allow all the leading actors, for once, to speak to the audience themselves. Some useful purpose should be served in thus bringing together for a new generation, from many scattered and, for the majority of readers, unavailable sources, the vital correspondence of Mary´s tragic years, from her marriage with Darnley to her fatal flight into England. "Whoever corrects the relations of history by the private letters of those who were the actors of the times," as Sir John Dalrymple has written, "will learn at every step, as he advances, to distrust the prejudices of others, and his own." That has certainly been my own experience. When one gets down to the sources of history, one discovers how tainted is much of the evidence on which some of our most merciless verdicts have been passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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