{"product_id":"9781909959699","title":"Privy Seal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis unique edition of Privy Seal from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Maddox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court (1906), Privy Seal (1907) and The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908), which present a highly fictionalized account of Katharine Howard's arrival at the Court of Henry VIII, her eventual marriage to the king, and her death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main strengths of this trilogy are considered by many writer admirers and critics—notably Graham Greene, Alan Judd and William Gass—to be its impressionistic qualities, its creation of a believable approximation of Tudor English and its successful creation of atmosphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The style of this novel cannot be escaped, and readers who prefer their literature to be invisibly literary should shun it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Fifth Queen, then, is like Eisenstein's Ivan: slow, intense, pictorial, and operatic. Plot is both its subject and its method. Execution is its upshot and its art.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The whole book has the atmosphere and particularity of film. It is set in static scenes and drenched in suggestions of power, fear, sex, longing, guile and fate.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Dodo Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169837367536,"sku":"9781909959699","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909959699_p0.jpg?v=1763625963","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909959699","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}