Luxembourg Epic III
The ambition and intransigence of King Charles IV
The third part begins with Charles' s fight for the crown of King of the Romans after Louis of Bavaria, but also with his search for a new bride after the death of his beloved wife, Blanche. Charles transforms into a decisive and ruthless ruler, willing to choose any path to achieve his goals. Prague becomes the center of the Roman Empire and the gloss that Charles gives it corresponds to this, but at the cost of costly politics and concessions to the domestic nobility and the church. And they must act the same way in the German states.
The novel ends with the issuance of the Golden Bull for the empire, thanks to which Charles consolidates his imperial power. His fate is intertwined with the gradual decline of the power of the lords of Landštejn, as the aging William is unable to resist the intrigues of all his noble relatives and his sons are unable to help him.
Vlastimil Vondruska
He studied history and ethnography at Charles University in Prague, worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and then at the National Museum in Prague. About 50 scientific studies and the first short stories date from that time. For over thirty years he has been a mountaineer. After the revolution in 1989, he founded a glassworks where he produced copies of historical glass. At that time he returned to writing fiction and has been a freelance writer since 2007. To date, he has published some 70 historical novels and detective stories, several children's books and, together with his wife, 20 popular history books. According to statistics from the National Library, he has been the most widely read Czech author for many years, selling nearly two million printed books and over 100,000 audiobooks, and several titles have been published abroad. He is also the author of the screenplay for the film In the Name of the King, as well as a writer of radio and stage plays. He has received numerous literary awards (e.g. the IBBY Award, the Czech Learned Society Award, the Honorary Award of the Mensa, the MOBA Readers' Prize). His novel The Hussite Epic won the Bestseller of the Year title in 2015. He also writes journalism, for which he received the Kramer Prize from the Association of Independent Media. In 2017, he received a state award for literature from President Miloš Zeman.
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