Wolf Hall (unabridged audio book): 1

Hilary Mantel; Narrated By Simon Slater

ISBN 10: 1407442708 ISBN 13: 9781407442709

Casa editrice: Whole Story Audio Books, 2009

Riassunto

This title is a winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2009. It is a special Edition featuring Exclusive Author Interview on Bonus CD. Tudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a man as ruthlessly 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. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.

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Recensione:

A stunning book. It breaks free of what the novel has become nowadays. I can't think of anything since Middlemarch which so convincingly builds a world. --Diana Athill

Magestically conjures up an England in the throes of epic change ... a Great British Novel. --The Observer

A magnificent achievement: the scale of its vision and the fine stitching of its detail; the teeming canvas of characters; the style with its clipped but powerful immediacy; the wit, the poetry and the nuance. --Sarah Dunant

L'autore:

Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of eleven books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Giving Up the Ghost, and, most recently, Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize.

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• Editore: Whole Story Audio Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1407442708
• ISBN 13: 9781407442709
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
• Numero di pagine: 21