Charles Charming's Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne
By Clive James
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This book is in good condition - has dustjacket and no pages are marked with pen or pencil.
A Synopsis from inside the dust jacket:
"Clive James has long been impressed with Prince Charles as a potential
epic hero. Who else but the Heir to the Throne has
been in the Army, Navy and Air Force, has studied at Gordonstoun and
Timbertop, can fly aircraft, navigate ships, drive
tanks, tell jokes and swim under ice? Who else has been a focus for the
adoration of untold numbers of young women, yet
had to set his face like flint against the blandishments of the
unworthy?
"But time which changes everything has finally changed the life even of
this paragon among men. The perfect bride was
discovered, by a process of selection which this poem reveals
exclusively for the first time. After undergoing the harsh
ordeal by media she has now joined the Prince, to be always at his side.
The biggest choice of his life has been made.
But for Prince Charles have there ever been any real choices apart from
this one? 2001 lines long, this poem is the one
last light word before the seriousness begins. But even beneath its
airy tone can be heard the firm tread of destiny.
Charles Charming's Challenges is a tribute to a young man who was
conscripted and yet trained himself to
be a volunteer - the Prisoner in the Velvet Mask.
"With his three previous epic protagonists - Peregrine Prykke (in the
Literary World), Felicity Fark (in the Land of the
Media) and Britannia Bright (in the Wilderness of Westminster) - Clive
James launched into a satirical world which
Richard Boston, writing in the Guardian, has called 'a comic
masterpiece'. Now in Charles Charming we have a hero
truly epic, illustrated by the redoubtable Marc in a poem that is
longer, funnier and even more compelling than its
predecessors - and may be worth a King's ransom to all concerned."
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