Author

Publication

2012 - Fourth Estate, London, England

Language

English

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Word Count

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Page Count

0 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivewolfhall0000mant_r3r1
  • ISBN-100007509774
  • ISBN-139780007509775
  • Google2qw_MgEACAAJ
  • Goodreads56107413
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC823.92
  • LCCPR6063.A438 W65 2012
  • LCCPR6063.A438

Description

Wolf Hall (2009) is a 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 through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels". The book is the first in a trilogy; the sequel [Bring Up the Bodies](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16547664W) was published in 2012. The last book in the trilogy is [The Mirror and the Light](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20665410W) (2020), which covers the last four years of Cromwell's life.

Description

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 oppose him. The quest for the petulant king's freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his rise to power, and is prepared to break some more. Rising from the ashes of personal disaster — the loss of his young family and of Wolsey, his beloved patron — he picks his way deftly through a court where 'man is wolf to man'. Pitting himself against parliament, the political establishment and the papacy, he IS prepared to reshape England to his own and Henry's desires. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is 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 great passion and suffering and courage. --front flap

Subjects

Topics

FictionHistoryPolitikHistoireEnglischFictional WorksRomans, nouvelles

Places

YorkLuccaWalesLondonCalaisPutneyJersey

People

Mary ISextonThurstonFrancis ILiz WykysEdward IVCharles V

Times

1500152915321530153315311527

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