Gemini: The House Of Niccolo 8 - Brossura

Dunnett, Dorothy

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ISBN 10: 0140252312 ISBN 13: 9780140252316

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2001

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'Dunnett's legion of devoted readers will need no recommendation to buy GEMINI. They would, I imagine, walk barefoot to the bookshop over broken glass to get it ... Anyone reading this novel, even as an introduction to Dunnett's work will, I suspect, join that band of admirers' Sunday Times GEMINI represents the final appearance of Nicholas de Fleury, who opened this series as a carefree, clumsy 18 year old apprentice in Flanders. Now he is in his thirties. The culmination of this amazing series sees Niccolo face his toughest battle yet, against an enemy who will tax every skill he has acquired over the course of the last few years...

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Praise for Dorothy Dunnett

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A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about pace, suspense and imaginative invention (- The New York Times)

Marvellous, breathtaking (- The Times)

A masterpiece of historical fiction (- Washington Post)

One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas (- Cleveland Plain Dealer)

Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety (- The Times)

Vivid, engaging, densely plotted - are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction (- New York Times)

Dunnett's legion of devoted readers will need no recommendation to buy Gemini. They would, I imagine, walk barefoot to the bookshop over broken glass to get it ... Anyone reading this novel, even as an introduction to Dunnett's work will, I suspect, join that band of admirers (- Sunday Times)

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Frequently described as the finest historical fiction writer of her time, Dorothy Dunnett earned worldwide acclaim for her blend of scholarship and imagination. She is best known for her two superb series of historical fiction - The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolo - set in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and ranging across Europe and the Mediterranean, and for King Hereafter, the eleventh-century story of Earl Thorfinn of Orkney whom Dorothy believed was also King Macbeth. In 1992, Dorothy Dunnett was awarded the OBE for her services to literature, and in 2014 Dunnett's most enduring hero, Francis Crawford of Lymond, was voted Scotland's favourite literary character - beating the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and Ivanhoe. Dunnett died 9 November 2001, having sold half a million copies internationally.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0140252312
• ISBN 13: 9780140252316
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 768