{"product_id":"9780141979908","title":"Richard II (Penguin Monarchs): A Brittle Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III.  He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne.  Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally succumbing to a coup, imprisonment and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the \u003ci\u003eWilton Diptych \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080815558896,"sku":"9780141979908","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141979908_p0.jpg?v=1763656107","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141979908","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}