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Gloriana
Gloriana
Author: Michael Moorcock
A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780446691406
ISBN-10: 0446691402
Publication Date: 8/1/2004
Pages: 496
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Publisher: Aspect
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 2
Gloriana (1979) is Moorcock's homage to Mervyn Peake (author of the Gormenghast saga), and fittingly, is a lush tale of intrigue told in thoroughly British prose.

The tale takes place in Renaissance-era Albion, the England of another world. Queen Gloriana presides, with the assistance of her counselors, over an empire of remarkable peace and prosperity: a romantic Golden Age in stark contrast to the cynical, iron rule of her father. All is not well, however, for the queen cannot--despite a veritable circus-stable of lovers male, female, both and other--achieve sexual fulfillment. (Whereas our own Queen Elizabeth was the 'virgin queen', in name at least, Gloriana proves quite the opposite.)
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Helpful Score: 1
I couldn't get through it, but if you're a Moorcock fan (which I'm not, really) you might like it. :-)
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