| Description |
xxiii, 653 pages, 20 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Across the narrow sea. 1500 -- Paternity. 1527 -- At Austin Friars. 1527 -- Visitation. 1529 -- An Occult history of Britain. 1521-1529 -- Make or mar. All Hallows 1529 -- Three-card trick. Winter 1529-Spring 1530 -- Entirely beloved Cromwell. Spring-December 1530 -- The dead complain of their burial. Christmastide 1530 -- Arrange your face. 1531 -- 'Alas, what shall I do for love?' Spring 1532 -- Early Mass. November 1532 -- Anna Regina. 1533 -- Devil's spit. Autumn and wubter 1533 -- A painter's eye. 1534 -- Supremacy. 1534 -- The map of Christendom. 1534-1535 -- To Wolf Hall. July 1535 |
| Summary |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, 'Wolf Hall' is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion, suffering and courage |
| Analysis |
Cromwell, Earl of Essex Thomas Henry VIII |
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Historical fiction |
| Notes |
First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2009 |
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Includes a P.S. ideas, interviews & features section |
| Audience |
General (US: Trade) |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction, English.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Court and courtiers http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100233 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100242
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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Reading nook.
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
0007230206 |
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9780007230204 (paperback) |
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