01977cam a2200265 a 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280100017000690200018000860200015001040400023001190430012001420500027001540820017001811000032001982450043002302500036002732600039003093000029003485201183003776000060015606510060016206550031016803307FISKH20240228154003.0090514s2009    nyuj          000 1 eng    a  2009019912  a9780805080681  a0805080686  aDLCbengcDLCdDLC  ae-uk---00aPR6063.A438bW65 2009a00a823/.9142221 aMantel, Hilary,d1952-2022.10aWolf Hall :ba novel /cHilary Mantel.  aThis edition published in 2010   aLondon : bHarper Collins, c2009   a653, 20 pages : c20 cm   aEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king's freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.
Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.10aCromwell, Thomas,cEarl of Essex,d1485?-1540vFiction. 0aGreat BritainxHistoryyHenry VIII, 1509-1547vFiction. 7aHistorical fiction.2gsafd