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Pawn in Frankincense: The Lymond Chronicles Book Four: The Lymond chronicles, cartea 4

Autor Dorothy Dunnett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 1999
Before George R. R. Martin there was Dorothy Dunnett. . .

PERFECT for fans ofA Game of Thrones.


'She is a brilliant story teller,The Lymond Chronicleswill keep you reading late into the night, desperate to know the fate of the characters you have come to care deeply about.'The Times Literary Supplement

Pawn in Frankincenseis the fourth book in the series

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'It seems to me that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford's protection than without it . . .'

It is 1552 and the royal galleyDauphine, under the command of Francis Crawford of Lymond, sails the glittering but dangerous Mediterranean looking for a lost son.

Yet as the search grows more urgent, Lymond knows he is being drawn deeper into the intricate web of his enemy Gabriel, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St John, who is already weaving a subtle tapestry of revenge.

It is a journey that will lead Lymond to Constantinople and the court of Suleiman the Magnificent where a terrible game will be played with deadly and incalculable consequences . . .

'Marvellous, breathtaking'TheTimes

'Melodrama of the most magnificent kind'The Guardian
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ISBN-13: 9780140282467
ISBN-10: 0140282467
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria The Lymond chronicles

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Frequently described as the finest historical fiction writer of her time,Dorothy Dunnettearned worldwide acclaim for her blend of scholarship and imagination. She is best known for her two superb series of historical fiction -The Lymond ChroniclesandThe House of Niccolo- set in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and ranging across Europe and the Mediterranean, and forKing 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.

Recenzii

Praise for Dorothy Dunnett
A storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two aboutpace, suspense and imaginative invention
Marvellous, breathtaking
Amasterpieceof historical fiction
One of thegreatest tale-spinnerssince Dumas
Lashings of excitement, colour and subtlety
Vivid, engaging, densely plotted- are almost certainly destined to be counted among the classics of popular fiction