Wolf Hall
A Novel
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4.0 • 1.1천개의 평가
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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION
In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel's New York Times bestselling Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston Globe).
The basis for the TV series on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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Wolf Hall
I've never read historical fiction, yet Mantel's Wolf Hall had me from the start. Great writing! Dialogue on almost every page, characters that come alive and about whom we care. Thoroughly entertaining, humor, revulsion, pathos, sex, murder, torture, religion...the grimy, glory world of medieval England revealed at its best. Read it.
Fabulous
Richly told, beautifully envisioned, with a wholly different image of Cromwell than we are used to hearing. Thoroughly enjoyable. Ended with an opening for a sequel, can hardly wait.
The genius
Of connecting the small and the grand. The best in it's genre. So many stunning passages for a story we thought we knew. I miss Mr. Crumuel.