Great Ralegh. Hugh De Sélincourt

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664563293

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       GREAT RALEGH

       CHAPTER I

       BIRTH

       CHAPTER II

       EARLY DAYS

       CHAPTER III

       TOWARDS MANHOOD

       CHAPTER IV

       THE ARRIVAL

       CHAPTER V

       QUEEN'S FAVOURITE

       CHAPTER VI

       THE GREAT ENTERPRISE

       CHAPTER VII

       BUSINESS MAN

       CHAPTER VIII

       AGAINST SPAIN

       CHAPTER IX

       RALEGH AND SPENSER

       CHAPTER X

       EVIL TIMES

       CHAPTER XI

       THE KINGDOM IN GUIANA

       CHAPTER XII

       CADIZ AND FAYAL

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE UNDERMINING

       CHAPTER XIV

       SUCCESSION PLOTS

       CHAPTER XV

       THE TRIAL

       CHAPTER XVI

       THE KING'S FARCE

       CHAPTER XVII

       THE LONG IMPRISONMENT

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE LAST JOURNEY

       CHAPTER XIX

       DEATH

       INDEX

PREFACE

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      This book has been written for the general reader. Caveat scholasticus. My aim has been to make the character of Ralegh live again, and to draw a picture of the times in as lively a manner as I see it. England in Elizabeth's maturity touched greatness; in Elizabeth's old age and during the reign of King James, England declined. Ralegh embodied the greatest qualities of the great days, and survived to carry on the Elizabethan tradition when the great Elizabethans had passed away.

      The books to which reference has been made are too many to need mention in a book of this kind: dramatists, poets, pamphleteers, memoirists have been freely pillaged. But I should like to acknowledge here my extreme indebtedness to the works of Major Martin Hume, Mr. T. N. Brushfield, and the late Mr. Edward Edwards, and to thank again Miss Janet Wheeler for her kind help, notably in that arduous task—the making of an Index.

      H. de S.