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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.
Aug 31, 2010 · Thomas Cromwell remains a controversial and mysterious figure. 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 . . . . both spellbinding and believable.” ―Christopher Benfey, The New York Times Book Review.
Apr 30, 2009 · 3.90. 210,968 ratings19,503 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.
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 · 4.2 20,435 ratings. Book 1 of 3: The Wolf Hall Trilogy. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, 2009. Save 50% on 1 when you buy 2 Shop items. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE.
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 and ascend to the heights of political power England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster.
From one of our finest living writers, WOLF HALL 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 ...
