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The Red Prince

The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

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The Red Prince

By: Helen Carr
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Medieval history from a rising star in the field, this is a biography of one of the most important figures of the age, John of Gaunt.

John Gaunt was the son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV, and the sire of all those Tudors. He has had pretty bad press: supposed usurper of Richard II’s crown and the focus of hatred in the Peasants’ Revolt, as they torched his home, the Savoy Palace.

Helen Carr paints a complex portrait of a man who held the levers of power on the English and European stage, passionately upheld chivalric values, pressed for the Bible to be translated into English, patronized the arts - and, if you follow Shakespeare, gave the most beautiful oration on England: “this sceptred isle...this blessed plot.”

The Red Prince is an engrossing drama of political machinations, violence, romance, plague, revolt, and tragedy played out at the cusp of a new era.

©2021 Helen Carr (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Europe Great Britain Medieval England Middle Ages Royalty Tudor Shakespeare
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Some of these reviews are awful. The author narrates the book herself and she obviously knows what she’s talking about. Her delivery is quite comfortably professional sounding enough not to spoil the honest cosy charm of the author speaking her own words directly to you. There is also inevitably extra quite literal authority in her delivery.

A fine book

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Loved every minute. Will listen to it again and again. Highly recommended. Very informative.

Brilliant book!

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I’m very interested in history, and I’m sure this would have been much more interesting, if the narrator was more dynamic. As it was she just droned on and on, and in the end it was getting on my nerves so much I cut it short.

Awful Narration

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The content of the book is good and well researched. However the narration seems to be AI generated based on sample of the Authors voice, it is not terrible, but very single tone, and obvious when a non trained word is spoke e.g. woolsack or place names.

Good book, AI narration

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I found the style, tone and the narration of this book really engaging. My understanding of this period has improved vastly and there were many nuggets of detail that I had not come across before that explained certain twists and turns in this fascinating period in history. Lovely to have it read by the author too.

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