Niccolo Rising Dorothy Dunnett
Cena: 14,32 zł
Penguin 1986, str. 590, stan db+ (podniszczona lekko okładka)
ISBN 0-14-009858-5
Glowing as a tapestry, glittering as a crown, Dorothy Dunnett's opulent narrative weaves an irresistible story.
Dorothy Dunnett is the author of the world-famous Lymond series of historical novels that began in 1962 with The Game of Kings. Her bestselling epic novel about Macbeth, King Hereafter, was published in 1982. She has also written six contemporary thrillers in the Dolly series featuring the yachtsman Johnson Johnson, published in Penguin. With this prolific output, she has earned an international reputation for brilliant historical research, sparkling wit and rich creative imagination.
In her Lymond books, Dorothy Dunnett explored the intricacies of sixteenth-century history through the personality of a single man who remains an internatio. ial byword for charisma. Her new chronicle, of which this is the first volume, places before us a different world of trade, war and banking as it opens before Niccold, the disarming, elusive genius who seems formed to exploit it.
'Here is romance in the grand manner, presented by a writer of quality. Her period sense is as exact as Mary Renault's, and she evokes the sixteenth century with an amazing richness of allusion and scholarship while keeping a firm control of an intricately twisting narrative. She has another more unusual quality: an ability to check her imagination with irony, to mix high romance with wif - Sunday Times
'She strings every vivid incident on a rapturously solid sense of period' - Guardian
'It is a tribute to Mrs Dunnett's ability as a novelist and researcher that she can write a historical novel which is amusing, exciting and entertaining ... I hope it runs to at least eight volumes, which won't seem a word too long' - Fiction Magazine
'Absorbing ... as in all Mrs Dunnett's complex and sophisticated plots, nothing is quite what it seems to be' - The Times
Język angielski
ISBN 0-14-009858-5
Glowing as a tapestry, glittering as a crown, Dorothy Dunnett's opulent narrative weaves an irresistible story.
Dorothy Dunnett is the author of the world-famous Lymond series of historical novels that began in 1962 with The Game of Kings. Her bestselling epic novel about Macbeth, King Hereafter, was published in 1982. She has also written six contemporary thrillers in the Dolly series featuring the yachtsman Johnson Johnson, published in Penguin. With this prolific output, she has earned an international reputation for brilliant historical research, sparkling wit and rich creative imagination.
In her Lymond books, Dorothy Dunnett explored the intricacies of sixteenth-century history through the personality of a single man who remains an internatio. ial byword for charisma. Her new chronicle, of which this is the first volume, places before us a different world of trade, war and banking as it opens before Niccold, the disarming, elusive genius who seems formed to exploit it.
'Here is romance in the grand manner, presented by a writer of quality. Her period sense is as exact as Mary Renault's, and she evokes the sixteenth century with an amazing richness of allusion and scholarship while keeping a firm control of an intricately twisting narrative. She has another more unusual quality: an ability to check her imagination with irony, to mix high romance with wif - Sunday Times
'She strings every vivid incident on a rapturously solid sense of period' - Guardian
'It is a tribute to Mrs Dunnett's ability as a novelist and researcher that she can write a historical novel which is amusing, exciting and entertaining ... I hope it runs to at least eight volumes, which won't seem a word too long' - Fiction Magazine
'Absorbing ... as in all Mrs Dunnett's complex and sophisticated plots, nothing is quite what it seems to be' - The Times
Język angielski
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