The Lady for Ransom (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alfred Duggan
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical romance
- Time of Work: The late eleventh century
- Setting: The Eastern Roman Empire
- Principal Characters: Roger Fitzodo, Lady Matilda, Messer Roussel de Balliol, Roger Fitztancred, Romanus Diogenes, Michael, John Ducas, Sultan Alp Arslan, Artough, Alexius Comnenus, Nicephorus Botiantes
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Prisoners, Revolutions, Rulers, Mercenary soldiers, Armies, Middle Ages, Monasteries, monks, or monasticism, Battles, Turkey or Turkish people
- Locales: Italy, Roman Empire
At a time when the historical romance seemed to be degenerating into thrill-seeking, shoddy journalism, or bedroom farce in costume, Alfred Duggan continued to produce works that are historical novels in the true sense of the word. In his books, it is not the very pastness of the past that is important, the nostalgic appeal of the far away and long ago, but the Realism of his presentation within the limits of his period. He had the ability to create against the background of the past a world so solidly constructed that his novels make ancient Roman or medieval times as real as the...
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