Title: The succession
First published: 1983
Description: “This is surely the best historical novel in many years,­” wrote Peter S. Prescott in Newsweek about Death of the Fox, George Garrett’s unparalleled reentry, into the heart of the English Renaissance. His new novel, *The Succession*, is surely the finest since: a triumph of intellect and imagination that once more brilliantly re-­creates Elizabethan England.­After decades of rule, Elizabeth I lies dying. She has overcomes the Spanish, the Pope, power-­hungry noblemen, even her beloved Essex. England is prospering under her; she is, they say, married to it. Who will succeed her? Who can? To read *The Succession* is to be plunged into the last days of this great age, to experience its humanity, color, pageantry, and drama; its grandeur, squalor, splendor, and folly. And to better imagine the procession that came before us (in any land) and the succession to follow.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Queens, Kings and rulers, Fiction, historical, general, Elizabeth i, queen of england, 1533-1603, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, general
Places: Great Britain, England
People: Elizabeth I Queen of England (1533-1603), James I King of England (1566-1625), James I King of England
Time periods: Elizabeth, 1558-1603, 16th Century
LC classification: PS3557.A72