About this title: 'All eyes and hair' a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of Court. Black-haired, black-eyed, she had a wild-sprite quality that was to prove more effective, more dangerous than conventional feminine appeal. The King first noticed her when she was sixteen - and with imperial greed he smashed her youthful love-affair with Harry Percy and began the process of royal seduction...But this was no ordinary woman, no maid-in-waiting to be possessed and discarded by a king. Against his will, his own common ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, light crease on spine, light aging. 378 p. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1964
Description: A good reading copy only. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. pages in book are yellowing due to aging process-, Mass Market PaperBack, Good / read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 2008-06-10
ISBN-13:9781416590903ISBN:1416590900
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tempus
Date Published: 2007-04
ISBN-13:9780752439433ISBN:075243943X
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Fawcett, N. Y.
Date Published: 1972
Description: Cover Art. Reading Copy. No Jacket. Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. ----Reading copy is rated from good to very fine-----We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by...... read more
"Another book about Anne Boleyn...written in 1965. Very interesting to read a less than contemporary view of Henry & Anne. Henry is much more complicit in the ultimate downfall of Anne than the more modern versions. And unlike contemporary novels, Ms. Lofts gives voice to Henry and Anne. She just creates their time together and makes it a much more fun read, and of course makes it further from the truth...but Ms. Lofts has a nice writing style, easy to read, good to while away the time. I'd recommend to fellow Tudor crazies, like me."
"I commissioned the current reissue at Tempus (under the Torc imprint). It was Alison Weir's suggestion to reissue the book. Touchstone then bought the US rights through me. The cover jpeg is of the Touchstone edition."
"The first several chapters read more like a history than a novel. They were rather dry, but the book warmed up as the plot did. There was one absolutely devastating moment in this book that reveals much (that is probably true) about Henry. As other reviewers have pointed out, Anne is not the harridan in this book that she is in The Other Boleyn Girl. Unless I'm mistaken, she had more pregnancies and more babies in TOBG as well.
Mary Boleyn is, of course, so sympathetic a character is TOBG that it's disappointing to find her so lackluster in The Concubine -- she's not very bright and she's whiny, and William Stafford isn't particularly likable either, in the brief glimpse we have of him.
The strangest thing about The Concubine is that, not only was there no evidence at all that the Howard and Boleyn families are pushing Anne into this relationship with Henry, but there is a stepmother -- NOT the coldhearted bitch who simply walks out of the room in disgust after Anne has once again failed to have a boy and is VERY ill. In The Concubine, Anne's mother has died many years earlier and her father has remarried. His new wife has no pedigree whatsoever, and she's very kind to the stepchildren, especially to Anne; and she and their father are like lovebirds all the time. I couldn't find any historical evidence that this woman existed, and I thought that it was an odd alteration to the historical record -- having little impact on the story, other than raising the possibility that the children had loving parents instead of grasping inhuman ones... although they were away at court (the children were, I mean) anyway. George did not figure prominently in The Concubine either."
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