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The Ringed Castle: Legendary Lymond Chronicles, cartea 3

Autor Dorothy Dunnett
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 1976
For the first time Dunnett's "Lymond Chronicles" are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.
Fifth in the legendary "Lymond Chronicles," The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. Francis Crawford of Lymond moves to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar. Yet even as Lymond tries to civilize a court that is still frozen in the attitudes of the Middle Ages, forces in England conspire to enlist this infinitely useful man in their own schemes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780848813024
ISBN-10: 0848813022
Pagini: 521
Dimensiuni: 147 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Amereon Limited
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Descriere

The fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, "The Ringed Castle" follows Lymond to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar. Yet the dangers of barbaric Russia are nothing beside those of England, where Lymond's oldest enemies are conspiring against him. 2 maps.

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

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.
Melodrama of the most magnificent kind
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