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VICTOR STATER "HIGH LIFE, LOW MORALS: THE DUEL THAT SHOOK STUART SOCIETY"
PIMLICO 2000 0712667067 / 9780712667067 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine creases, may have small cover crease on back cover,() When the Victorian novelist William Thackeray was looking for a tale of early 18th-century London life with which to provide the plot for his novel Henry Esmond, he came up with the fateful feud between the Whig Lord Charles Mohun and the Tory James Douglas- Hamilton, Duke of Arran. In November, 1712, Mohun and Hamilton met in Hyde Park to fight a brutal duel which left both men dead and whose consequences sent shock- waves throughout Stuart England. In High Life, Low Morals, Victor Slater provides a detailed and compelling account of the feud between these two contrasting political figures, set against the high life and low life of early 18th-century London. According to Slater, ID: mon0000023769"
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6.84 USD
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