Pity For The Guy: A Biography of Guy Fawkes

(Revised Edition 2025)

De: John Paul Davis

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

AS FEATURED ON ITV's THE ALAN TITCHMARSH SHOW, 1 NOVEMBER 2011

NEW AND IMPROVED SECOND EDITION 2025
First Edition published by Peter Owen Publishers, 2010

FROM THE BACK PAGE

Initially published in 2010, Pity For The Guy was the first biography of Guy Fawkes to paint a detailed portrait of the man behind the infamous Gunpowder Plot. For hundreds of years, Fawkes has been portrayed as an extreme figure: a rabid Catholic and cold-blooded would-be murderer who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, killing James I and much of England’s nobility. Such was the threat that the Gunpowder Plot posed to the English way of life, Fawkes’s failure to destroy the government of the day is commemorated throughout Britain every 5 November on Bonfire Night.

In an updated edition of this absorbing study, John Paul Davis makes a convincing reassessment of one of history’s most notorious figures. Chock full of intrigue and insights into the political complexities of the age, Fawkes is revealed as far more than a shadowy conspirator with an axe to grind against the Protestant state. By blowing away the many myths that have developed over the centuries, this book enables Guy Fawkes to be revealed in the round. As a soldier, a diplomat, an adventurer, a spy, a servant, a son, a victim, a friend . . . and possibly the most misunderstood of English villains.