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Henry Loves Beckett
Author: Henry Hugglemonster: Henry Loves Beckett
Author: Disney BooksPublisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1484708245
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Read along with Disney! Henry and his big sister, Summer, team up to throw their monsterdog, Beckett, the most roarsome birthday party ever! But something strange is happening: all of the pets' noisy toys are disappearing. When Henry investigates the mystery, he finds a fuzzlebird who wants peace and quiet for her newborn baby. Luckily, Hugglemonsters always do the right thing! Follow along with word-for-word narration as Henry finds a solution to make his furred, feathered, and monster friends happy, and still have the best pet party ever!
Henry Loves Beckett
Author: Disney Book GroupPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606359078
Category : Picture books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. Henry and his big sister, Summer, team up to throw their monsterdog, Beckett, the most roarsome birthday party ever! But something strange is happening: all of the pets' noisy toys are disappearing. When Henry investigates the mystery, he finds a fuzzlebird who wants peace and quiet for her newborn baby. Luckily, Hugglemonsters always do the right thing, and Henry finds a solution to make his furred, feathered, and monster friends happy, and still have the best pet party ever!
World of Reading: Henry Hugglemonster: Snow Day
Author: Disney BooksPublisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1484735382
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Read along with Disney! Henry and Summer are excited to sled down Mount Roarsmore. There's just one problem: Summer is afraid of the big, scary Snow-Grrr who supposedly lives on top of the moutain! Henry says that there is no such thing, but who is right? Follow along with word-for-word narration in this brrr-illiant winter adventure!
Thomas Becket
Author: John GuyPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0679603417
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KANSAS CITY STAR AND BLOOMBERG Becket’s life story has been often told but never so incisively reexamined and vividly rendered as it is in John Guy’s hands. The son of middle-class Norman parents, Becket rose against all odds to become the second most powerful man in England. As King Henry II’s chancellor, Becket charmed potentates and popes, tamed overmighty barons, and even personally led knights into battle. After his royal patron elevated him to archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, however, Becket clashed with the King. Forced to choose between fealty to the crown and the values of his faith, he repeatedly challenged Henry’s authority to bring the church to heel. Drawing on the full panoply of medieval sources, Guy sheds new light on the relationship between the two men, separates truth from centuries of mythmaking, and casts doubt on the long-held assumption that the headstrong rivals were once close friends. He also provides the fullest accounting yet for Becket’s seemingly radical transformation from worldly bureaucrat to devout man of God. Here is a Becket seldom glimpsed in any previous biography, a man of many facets and faces: the skilled warrior as comfortable unhorsing an opponent in single combat as he was negotiating terms of surrender; the canny diplomat “with the appetite of a wolf” who unexpectedly became the spiritual paragon of the English church; and the ascetic rebel who waged a high-stakes contest of wills with one of the most volcanic monarchs of the Middle Ages. Driven into exile, derided by his enemies as an ungrateful upstart, Becket returned to Canterbury in the unlikeliest guise of all: as an avenging angel of God, wielding his power of excommunication like a sword. It is this last apparition, the one for which history remembers him best, that will lead to his martyrdom at the hands of the king’s minions—a grisly episode that Guy recounts in chilling and dramatic detail. An uncommonly intimate portrait of one of the medieval world’s most magnetic figures, Thomas Becket breathes new life into its subject—cementing for all time his place as an enduring icon of resistance to the abuse of power.
Henry the Young King, 1155-1183
Author: Matthew StricklandPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300219555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Crowned at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. Yet, consistently denied direct rule, the Young King was provoked first into heading a major rebellion against his father, then to waging a bitter war against his brother Richard for control of Aquitaine, dying before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. In this remarkable history, Matthew Strickland provides a richly colored portrait of an all-but-forgotten royal figure tutored by Thomas Becket, trained in arms by the great knight William Marshal, and incited to rebellion by his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, while using his career to explore the nature of kingship, succession, dynastic politics, and rebellion in twelfth-century England and France.
Henry II
Author: Wilfred Lewis WarrenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgements ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself, an eloquent and impressive achievement.
A Beckett Canon
Author: Ruby CohnPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025937
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on Beckett's work in its original language. Beginning in 1929 with Beckett's earliest work, the book examines the variety of genres in which he worked: poems, short stories, novels, plays, radio pieces, teleplays, reviews, and criticism. Cohn grapples with the difficulties in Beckett's work, including the opaque erudition of the early English verse and fiction, and the searching depths and syntactical ellipsis of the late works. Specialist and nonspecialist readers will find A Beckett Canon valuable for its remarkable inclusiveness. Cohn has examined the holdings of all of the major Beckett depositories, and is thus able to highlight neglected manuscripts and correct occasional errors in their listings. Intended as a resource to accompany the reading of Beckett's writing--in English or French, published or unpublished, in part or as a whole--the book offers context, information, and interpretation of the work of one of the last century's most important writers. Ruby Cohn is Professor Emerita of Comparative Drama, University of California, Davis. She is author or editor of many books, including Anglo-American Interplay in Recent Drama; Retreats from Realism in Recent English Drama; From Desire to Godot; and Just Play: Beckett's Theater.
World of Reading Henry Hugglemonster: The Huggleball Game
Author: Disney BooksPublisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1484708261
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Read along with Disney! Go Hugglemonsters! In this roarsome Level Pre-1 reader, Henry and his friends challenge the grown-up Hugglemonsters to a game of Huggleball. Follow along with word-for-word narration as co-captains Henry and Summer find a way to work together as a team!
I'm a Happy Hugglewug
Author: Niamh SharkeyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781406315950
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This fun exploration of family life introduces very young readers to a brand-new family as well as words and counting. Full color.