![]() This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book.Ī network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. ![]() “This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, is entirely true to its subject: Adam Nicolson’s lapidary prose is masterly, his measured account both as readable as the curious demand and as dignified as the story deserves.” - Simon Winchester, author of Krakatoa ![]()
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