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In this book, the personal overwhelms the political. Wars and diplomatic events are the sideshows to court intrigue. -- New York Journal of Books Kate Reading's expressive and energetic narration of this birth-to-death biography of France's Louis XIV animates a history that is itself refreshingly brisk, factual, and accessible...Reading's command of French and of proper nouns in other European languages is particularly impressive...[and] her narration of the French-Dutch-English wars is a virtuoso display of linguistic precision and dexterity. -- AudioFile Wilkinson well describes Louis's love life, his peripatetic infatuations, and longer-term affairs that made for court intrigues. -- Booklist A historical account that is both entertaining and informative. -- Library Journal An agreeable and generally admiring biography. She covers war and politics efficiently, but this is very much a personal biography. The king's ministers receive less attention than his mistresses. Yet Louis was no playboy monarch, as Ms. Wilkinson makes clear. -- Wall Street Journal

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Josephine Wilkinson is the author of numerous biographies published in Great Britain: Anne Boleyn, The Princes in the Tower, Katherine Howard, and Richard III. She received her PhD from the University of Newcastle. She has been scholar-in-residence at St Denial's Library. She now lives in York, Richard III's favorite city. Kate Reading is the recipient of three AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has narrated everything from Patricia Cornwell to George Eliot. Her favorite BOT recordings include Like Water for Chocolate, Middlemarch, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Times series, which she narrated with her husband, Michael Kramer.

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