"The almost perfect historical novel." -The New York Times The Man on a Donkey is an enthralling, panoramic historical novel that brings to life one of the most tumultuous times in British history-the reign of King Henry VIII.

First published in 1940 under the title SPANISH TUDOR, Prescott's biography won the James Tait Black prize the following year. An extensively revised and updated edition was published in 1953 under the title MARY TUDOR.

This is a sweeping, immersive historical novel that invites the reader to inhabit Tudor history as it unfolds: Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon; Robert Aske's rebels fighting the Dissolution of the Monasteries; the machinations ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.