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"Quite simply the best British historical novel in years" (Daily Mail)
"A triumph" (Allan Massie The Scotsman)
"Mount is a fresh and brilliant historical writer; he brings a haunted and scorned statesman sympathetically to life and makes the past breathe again" (Sunday Times)
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione1995
- ISBN 10 0749395435
- ISBN 13 9780749395438
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine224
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