02110cam a2200313 a 4500 3307 FISKH 20240228154003.0 090514s2009 nyuj 000 1 eng 2009019912 9780805080681 0805080686 DLC eng DLC DLC e-uk--- PR6063.A438 W65 2009a 823/.914 22 Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022. Wolf Hall : a novel / Hilary Mantel. This edition published in 2010 London : Harper Collins, 2009 653, 20 pages : 20 cm England 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. Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 Fiction. Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction. Historical fiction. gsafd 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 3307 3307 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 001 001 TKSF 2024-02-26 0 MAN Fic PR6063.A438 FISSE03335 2024-02-26 15:14:10 2024-02-26 BK