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  <title><![CDATA[The Gunpowder Plot]]></title>
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  <default_description>With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of  5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.  'Told with impressive scholarship and panache...The result is a narrative that is clear, balanced, and builds to its denouement with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carre novel' John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Gunpowder Plot</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Antonia Fraser]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Remember, remember, the 5th of November; Gunpowder, treason and plot...</em><br/><br/>At first glance, it might seem a little odd that I am reading a book so closely connected with November and Bonfire Night at the beginning of August. But although Fraser manages to untangle much of the still confused ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1673207">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 17 05:30:51 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[For much of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I the repression meted out against Catholics increased almost annually.  You can understand why the Queen might have been a bit annoyed with the Catholics – she might well have won the Spanish Armada, but even the joy of winning would have to have been temp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78058821">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 07 12:10:12 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is Guy Fawkes Night tonight. The Americans have their Thanksgiving, in which they sit for a meal with family and friends, and we symbolically burn a member of a religious minority who had the courage to stand up against a tyrannical and intolerant regime. I'm not a Catholic but I do sympathise, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77022741">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the last few days I've been trying to recall a better book of narrative history, and can't think of one. On that basis it clearly rates 5 stars. All the boxes are ticked - the prose is clear, the main themes relating to the subject are all covered, sources are meticulously referenced, and it's a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59468343">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard of Guy Fawkes Day and I knew they burned bonfires on that day, but I never knew why.  Now I do.  Antonia Fraser is a bit dry in her writing, but you can't knock her research and detail.  The pace of the book did pick up with the unfolding of the plot.  Fraser did do a good job setting yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14686186">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<img src="http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/92557086/456521" class="escapedImg"/><br/><br/>The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 (1996) A non fiction book by Antonia Fraser, unabridged and read by Patricia Gallimore.<br/><br/>What else could come after a re-visit to V for Vengeance? <br/><br/><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/vimsig/pic/000p1729/s320x240" class="escapedImg"/><br/><br/><img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/vimsig/pic/000p2skf/s320x240" class="escapedImg"/><br/><br/><br/>This is how I like my history, Fraser is the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66985696">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42962088">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is as lively as her biographies, and a timely tale of Religon turning to murder and terroism.  It is a great Religon gone wrong book.  Very entertaining for the laymen of history. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Remember, Remember,...</em>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an excellent analysis of the Powder Treason.  I especially liked the references to the wives and sisters of the planners.  This book gives a great overview of what the reality of practicing Catholicism during the early parts of the Jacobean reign.  It was well-researched and the footnotes o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54376169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60394888">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story behind why we English have Bonfire Night every 5th of November. Fraser doesn't just tell the story of what happened that fateful night but also goes into the background of the reasons why the Catholics became homeland terrorists. As Fraser is a renowned historian I expected the book to be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60394888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3316894">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 20 09:18:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The true story of the 1650 plot to blow up the House of Parliament and King James I. (yes the bible version, King James guy)<br/><br/>So, ever since I read Dan Brown books I been curious about the  name on every Bible I personally seen, King James. I wanted to know the king's full name? How did be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3316894">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32929554">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I like switching between fiction and nonfiction, I started this book at the same time I started The Appeal by John Grisham. So far, I'm loving this book. Fraser pulls you right into the plot from the epilogue, where she sets up the environment post-Queen Elizabeth. Her writing is lively, factu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32929554">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63499768">
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    <body><![CDATA[The events described in this book still resonate till today. I am pretty keen on history but when I saw the title on Audible I just had to listen to it. If you can answer, &quot;Who the plotters? Why did they want to do it? What role did Guy Fawkes play and what happened to them? &quot; then you don...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63499768">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17953365">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 25 06:46:10 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting story with lots of research to back it. Fraser is always good at <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein" title="Frankenstein by Mary Shelley">making history</a> readable by writing it as a narrative rather than a collection of facts. ]]></body>
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    <review id="5383756">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was good, a lot of history of the Catholic/Protestant issue during the time of James I.  The actual plot takes up a small portion of the book, and although they still celebrate the holiday in England, the actual story isn't quite as exciting as the legends.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good story about how religion can drive people to kill a king.  Some interestig tid bits.  May appeal to those that like English history more than me.<br/><br/>Not as entertaining as I thought it would be, but a good story nonetheless.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well written history.  The writing grabs you and keeps you.  But it requires a through knowledge of 17th Century English geography - especially London - to keep up.  Thanks goodness for Wikipoedia.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 05 09:14:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for a class on Stuart England.  It was alright.  If you know nothing of the period or event in question it's worth a look, but feel free to skim liberally.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 06 00:21:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 06 00:32:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know why I originally picked this history up, but it turned out to be a fascinating read. ]]></body>
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