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Oct 21, 2021 · Mantel has filled in the blanks plausibly, brilliantly. “Wolf Hall” has epic scale but lyric texture. Its 500-plus pages turn quickly, winged and falconlike. Trained in the law, Mantel can see ...
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Apr 30, 2009 · Hilary Mantel. 3.90. 211,794 ratings19,572 reviews. 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 ...
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Sep 14, 2021 · Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel [A Review] The huge interest and success of Wolf Hall showed that the world is still far from done with the Tudors and appetite for them remains unsated. England in the early 16 th century is simmering with an uneasy peace. Far better than the bitter War of the Roses period, the Tudor hold of the crown is nevertheless ...
Wolf Hall is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII ...
- Hilary Mantel
- 2009
Historical Context of Wolf Hall. Wolf Hall closely follows the documented historical events of the Tudor court. The Tudors ascended the English throne with Henry VII, who believed he should guard the power of the Tudor family by securing powerful allies. This was why he married his eldest son, Arthur, to the Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon.
The Cromwell of Wolf Hall has some of the qualities that his enemies feared and detested—toughness, wiliness, worldliness—but as Mantel depicts them, they are qualities in the service of survival, success, and even a measure of decency in a cruel and indecent world … This is a novel too in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely ...
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Jan 22, 2020 · The Wolf Hall trilogy is comprised of three books: Wolf Hall (2009), Bring up the Bodies (2012) and The Mirror and the Light (3 March, 2020). It is also sometimes referred to as the Thomas Cromwell series but Hilary Mantel officially refers to it as the Wolf Hall trilogy. The books should be read in order of publication.
