Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A spellbinding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists - Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution's ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends.

Critically acclaimed upon first publication, 'A Place of Greater Safety' is one of Mantel's most celebrated works of fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007354849
• Artikelnr.: 39855401

Autorenporträt

Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.

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Rezensionen

'You could read this a dozen times and not come to the end of its originality, its moral intelligence, its gargantuan flair' Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

'Superbly readable...an assured and strange masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph

'One of the best English novels of the 20th century' Diana Athill, The Oldie

'Hilary Mantel has soaked herself in the history of the period...and a striking picture emerges of the exhilaration, dynamic energy and stark horror of those fearful days' Daily Telegraph

'I cannot think of a historical novel as good as this until one goes back to Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian", published forty years ago.' Evening Standard

'Marvellous...It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Hilary Mantel captures it all' Time Out

'Intriguing...She has grasped what made these young revolutionaries - and with them the French Revolution - tick' Independent

'Crafty tensions, twists and high drama...a bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style' Times Literary Supplement

'An extraordinary and overwhelming novel...immensely detailed and yet fast-moving...she has set herself to capture the excitement and intellectual fervour of the period. She does it admirably...a tour de force' Scotsman

'Riveting...the book overflows with a natural storyteller's energy' New Yorker

'Much, much more than a historical novel, this is an addictive study of power, and the price that must be paid for it...a triumph' Cosmopolitan

'This is a high-class historical blockbuster' Red Magazine

'Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible...an ambitious, gripping epic' Vogue