Wolf Hall / Large type books.
Mantel, Hilary, 1952-
Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel. - Large print ed. - Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2012. - 973 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.
9781594136139
Cromwell, Thomas Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 --Fiction.
Large type books.
Great Britain--Court and courtiers--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Henry VIII, 1509-1547--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
823.914
Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel. - Large print ed. - Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2012. - 973 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.
9781594136139
Cromwell, Thomas Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 --Fiction.
Large type books.
Great Britain--Court and courtiers--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Henry VIII, 1509-1547--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
823.914