 | Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.99 Fiction, from approx 1650s to mid,late 1670's.
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 | The King's Favorite: A Novel of Nell Gwyn and King Charles II by Susan Holloway Scott
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Fiction, based on many parts from 'Nell Gwynn: Mistress to a King'.
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 | Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess Castlemaine and King Charles II by Susan Holloway Scott
Buy used from: $3.13 Fiction, covers up to Barbara's departure from the Court.
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 | Oddsfish! (Dodo Press) by Robert Hugh Benson
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $25.32 Fiction - set during the Rye House Plot and the Popish Plot.
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 | Invitation To A Funeral by Molly Brown
Buy used from: $0.01 Mystery set in the time of King Charles. Features Aphra Behn, Nell Gwynn, Earl of Rochester and more.
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 | The Green and the Gold: A Novel of Andrew Marvell: Spy, Politician, Poet by Christopher Peachment
Buy used from: $3.70 Fiction - Marvell was spy for King Charles II, as well as a poet. Features also the Earl of Rochester, John Dryden, etc.
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 | Young Rochester by Joan Ruddle
Buy used from: $21.59 Fiction - story of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester's abduction of the young heiress Elizabeth Malet (who later became his wife)
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 | Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights by Liza Picard
Buy used from: $12.99 Non-fiction. Excellent overview of almost every area of 17th century living as collected from various diaries and other primary sources. A MUST read for anyone starting or interested in what life was like in London in the reign of King Charles II.
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 | A Profane Wit : The Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by James William Johnson
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $29.69 Non-fiction. Biography of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, presented in chronological chapters. Makes and effort to include the factors, factions and friendships as well as other aspects of society that Rochester influenced and was influenced by. Most recent biography, and fairly unbiased.
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 | The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year by A. Lloyd Moote
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $9.95 Non-fiction. Re-live the Great Plague of London in 1665, week by week with primary sources, including the Bills of Mortality, items from 'The News', parish reports, personal letters and more. Makes Defoe's account look tame!
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 | By Permission of Heaven by Adrian Tinniswood
Buy used from: $3.00 Non-fiction. Detailed account of the Great Fire of London. Almost as readable as fiction!
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 | National Geographic - Mega Structures Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $19.99 LOOK FOR VOLUME TWO! Contains the episode on Megastructures of Henry VIII, which gives the layouts and history of Hampton Palace, Whitehall Palace and more - all places still used by King Charles II and his Court.
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 | The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd
Buy used from: $20.47 Non-fiction biography of Aphra Behn, Restoration Playwright (b 1640 - d 1687)
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 | The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the Tower of London by Daniel Hahn
Buy used from: $0.61 Non-fiction - presents the history of the animals kept at the Tower Of London. Includes many ancedotes and stories of the various beasts. Includes from earliest times to it's closing. Large area of information on the menagerie during the time of King Charles II. Meet Old Crowley, Pepys' favorite 'Lyon'!
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 | The Last King - The Power and the Passion of Charles II
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.84 American version - lots of details, but the UK version has an additional 20 minutes of film the American version somehow lost! (Mostly dealing with the issues of Charles 'Black Box')
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 | Restoration
Buy used from: $11.33 Fictionalized account of the early to middle 1660s. Not an accurate portrayal of King Charles II, but such is the way of fiction!
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 | The Man of Mode (New Mermaids) by George Etherege
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $7.76 Restoration Era Play by Sir George Etherege
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| THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS Volume V - 1664 by Samuel; Latham, Robert & Matthews, William (new and Complete Transcription Edited by) Pepys
Buy used from: $98.24 Non-fiction. There are 11 volumes, including the reference volume in this set. The most recent, excellently edited with explanatory details about events and people on each page and in context. Modernized spelliing, maps included. WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT!
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| Charles II and the Duke of Buckingham by David Hanrahan
Buy used from: $15.84 Non-Fiction. Most recent attempt to analyze and explain the life-long relationship between Charles II and the Duke of Buckingham, who it seems he would and did forgive of anything.
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| The Rover: Aphra Behn
Buy used from: $4.99 Restoration Era Play by Aphra Behn
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 | Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham: Volume I
Buy new: $215.00 / Used from: $25.00 Non-fiction - first collection of the works and letters from the commonplace book of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - the first published since the 1700s, with new attributions and research as to authors and relationships.
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 | Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
Buy new: $10.45 / Used from: $8.19 Non-fiction. You can nearly smell the streets of 17th century London through this. Gives the calls of the street sellers, neighbors suing neighbors over assorted nuisances, street accidents, fish mongers, ratcatchers and every imaginable character one could hope to find!
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 | The World of the Country House in Seventeenth-Century England by Dr. J. T. Cliffe
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $14.95 Non-fiction. Ever wonder what it would be like to run a 17th century manor house of your own? This detailed book covers everything from household routines to the hiring and wages of servants, tutors, estate stewards, and much much more.
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 | Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680 by Andrew Wear
Buy new: $44.89 / Used from: $14.88 Non-fiction. Read this and be glad your doctor does not stil practice Gallenic Medicine! Great details, don't recommend you try the remedies though! Mostly centered on 17th Century Medicine.
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| Taverns and tokens of Pepys' London by George Berry
Buy used from: $26.50 Non-Fiction. Street by street analysis of the taverns and such places visited by Pepys. Gives small maps with locations, shows tokens that were used in place of 'small change', gives owners names and family information for many.
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| Restoration Theatre Production (Theatre Production Studies) by Jocelyn Powell
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $14.99 Well worth the search to find if you want to know where Nell Gwynn really performed!
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 | Memoirs Of The Court Of Charles The Second by Count Grammont
Buy new: $32.64 / Used from: $30.42 Non-fiction.... well sort of! Count Grammont wrote his memoirs with help, many years afterwards. Not accurate in all details, but still worth reading.
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 | The Libertine
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.98 Terrible research was done for this, facts are not accurate or even in the right times, but still the most recent attempt at a 'Restoration Era' setting. Interesting for its mud and dirt, but do NOT depend on it for any kind of factual portrayal of any of its characters!
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 | The Ministry of Pleasure (Oberon Modern Plays) by Craig Baxter
Buy used from: $23.91 Modern stage play of the Restoration Era. Not particualarly factual, but one of the most recent. Features King Charles, Barbara Villiers, the Earl of Rocchester and more!
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