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"The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the...
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English
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Booker Prize Longlist 2020
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
The Mirror & the Light Readalikes
OBD Notable Books 2020 - New York Times Book Review
The Mirror & the Light Readalikes
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"With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making...
3) Wolf Hall
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Distributed by PBS Distribution
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[2015]
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English
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Thomas Cromwell is a brutal blacksmith's son who rises from the ashes of personal disaster and deftly picks his way through a court where 'man is wolf to man.' King Henry VIII is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Told from Cromwell's perspective, "Wolf Hall" follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of this pragmatic and accomplished power broker who must serve king...
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Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"MIKE POULTON'S TWO-PART STAGE ADAPTATION OF HILARY MANTEL'S ACCLAIMED NOVELS WOLF HALL AND BRING UP THE BODIES Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels are the most formidable literary achievements of recent times, both recipients of the Man Booker Prize. Adapted by Mike Poulton, the plays were premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Straford-upon-Avon, in December 2013, directed by Jeremy Herrin. This edition contains a substantial...
5) Na szafocie
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Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
Pub. Date
2013.
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Polish
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Dalszy ciąg historii życia Tomasza Cromwella na tle upadku Anny Boleyn! Hilary Mantel, rekonstruując od stuleci owiane tajemnicą okoliczności upadku Anny Boleyn, stworzyła pasjonujące dzieło, na kartach którego postaci sprzed wieków ożywają w pełnym blasku. Henryk VIII zakochuje się w Joannie Seymour. Tomasz Cromwell, wykonując wolę władcy, stara się doprowadzić do rozwiązania małżeństwa z Anną Boleyn, co kończy się - jak...
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