Name: Lord of the World II: Touch the Sky
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Lord of the World II: Touch the Sky

The sixth part of the saga of Charles IV. and his time

The final part of the six-part novel saga about Charles IV. and his time. The Luxembourg dynasty has a great future on the Czech throne. While Casimir of Poland and Louis of Hungary are still without male descendants, Charles' finally happy marriage to Eliška Pomoranska produces daughters and sons who will inherit the Polish-Hungarian heritage. In the hitherto united Christianity, however, the first shoots of discontent with the evils of the Church are already sprouting. But who will touch heaven to know the truth? The plot of the last part of the royal saga continues until the day of Charles's death, which did not happen at the age of sixty-two, but by an unfortunate accident at the very peak of his successful life.

Ludmila Vankova

Ludmila Vaňková, by her own name Paukertová. She is a novelist and author of historical novels. She was born on 9 May 1927 in Prague. In 1942, her father was executed by the Gestapo. She studied sociology and psychology at Charles University, but in 1948 she was expelled from the Charles University Faculty of Arts for political reasons (member of the National Social Party). She graduated in 1968-71. First she worked as a secretary in various publishing houses (European Literary Club, Čs. writer), later as an editor (Albatros). In 1968, she joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, then resigned the following year, and worked as a switchman at the Karlštejn railway station from 1973 to 1977. She did not publish until 1977, and has been a full-time writer since.