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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 through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Apr 30, 2009 · Wolf Hall tells the story of King Henry VIII, his dalliance with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Catherine of Aragorn, and his rupture with the Catholic Church. It is told from the point of view of Thomas Cromwell, an up-from-his-bootstraps kind of guy, a protégé of the powerful Cardinal Wolsey who becomes a fixer for the King following Wolsey ...
Aug 31, 2010 · The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won worldwide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir Giving Up the Ghost , and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa ...
Oct 21, 2021 · “Try always,” says the worldly Cardinal Wolsey in “Wolf Hall,” Hilary Mantel’s fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s turbulent court, “to find out what people wear under their clothes.”
May 4, 2021 · "Wolf Hall" reduces the sprawling soap opera of Henry VIII's "Great Matter" and his subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn to a world in small, populated by men of degrees of power who are caught up in this political nightmare whether they wish to be or not.
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies PBS Masterpiece E-Book Bundle. By Hilary Mantel. Literary Fiction
Oct 1, 2020 · Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy – Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light – traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power in Henry VIII's Tudor England.
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Oct 13, 2009 · “Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is a startling achievement, a brilliant historical novel focused on the rise to power of a figure exceedingly unlikely, on the face of things, to arouse any sympathy at all . . . . This is a novel too in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely disappears.”
Oct 13, 2009 · The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. Mantel authored over a...
Oct 13, 2009 · Wolf Hall: A Novel. Hilary Mantel. Macmillan, Oct 13, 2009 - Fiction - 532 pages. In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor...
