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A carregar... Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) (original 2009; edição 2010)por Hilary Mantel
Pormenores da obraWolf Hall por Hilary Mantel (2009)
  
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 etxgardener | Apr 17, 2021 |  Warning: Hilary Mantel is not Phillipa Gregory. Hey, I have consumed Gregory’s Tudor Era Historical-fiction with glee, but any reader expecting a cut-form historical novel will be disappointed by Wolf Hall. Mantel expects a lot of her readers. Her prose is oblique, the dialogues are interwoven with the characters inner voices and memories, historical figures leap at the pages without any introduction to their background (yes, reading Phillipa Gregory first may help those of us without a history degree). Nothing, and I mean nothing, is given digested and rationalized by the author. Not even the title of this book, which in a first, superficial interpretation seems misleading, but alludes to so much more. Nevertheless, the world created (or re-created) by Mantel is lush with the conflicts of the time, where theology and politics, pregnancies and heresy, all interconnected in the realm of power. Thomas Cromwell, whom the narrative follows, is portrait maybe in too positive of a light. Yet, he is made so human, his inner struggles laid so bare – even in the convoluted narration – that it feels impossible not to warm our readers’ heart to him. I cannot remember of another historical figure receiving such reverence by a fiction writer, as Hilary Mantel does to Cromwell in Wolf Hall. So, history buffs, literary fans, and psychology students, go for it. It is beautifully done. (  ) RosanaDR | Apr 15, 2021 | OK so I know this book won a great many awards but it just wasn't the book for me. I found it very dry and tedious to get through. I did appreciate the other reviewers who stated that you have to understand that the "he" used throughout the book was almost entirely referring to Thomas Cromwell and I agree it does get annoying. I truly don't understand what the author's point of that was. In any case I'm glad I plowed through it but would definitely not read it again. (  ) ChrisCaz | Feb 23, 2021 | I expected more from it, but maybe it's just that the the writing style isn't quite to my taste. Because other than that, it's definitely epic. ( ) Susammelsurium | Feb 22, 2021 | Borrowed from neighbor Sheila during polar vortex. Such great writing but so frustrating with the pronun over-usage. I read it to learn but so high-context most of the time I had no idea what was going on. (  ) sidrose | Feb 19, 2021 |
 Hilary Mantel sets a new standard for historical fiction with her latest novel Wolf Hall, a riveting portrait of Thomas Cromwell, chief advisor to King Henry VIII and a significant political figure in Tudor England. Mantel’s crystalline style, piercing eye and interest in, shall we say, the darker side of human nature, together with a real respect for historical accuracy, make this novel an engrossing, enveloping read.  hard to read but enjoyable A sequel is plainly in view, as we are given glimpses of the rival daughters who plague the ever-more-gross monarch’s hectic search for male issue. The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527–35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest. Mantel is herself of Catholic background and education, and evidently not sorry to be shot of it (as she might herself phrase the matter), so it is generous of her to show the many pettinesses and cruelties with which the future “Bloody Mary” was visited by the callous statecraft and churchmanship of her father’s court. Cromwell is shown trying only to mitigate, not relieve, her plight. And Mary’s icy religiosity he can forgive, but not More’s. Anyone who has been bamboozled by the saccharine propaganda of A Man for All Seasons should read Mantel’s rendering of the confrontation between More and his interlocutors about the Act of Succession, deposing the pope as the supreme head of the Church in England. Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is a startling achievement, a brilliant historical novel focused on the rise to power of a figure exceedingly unlikely, on the face of things, to arouse any sympathy at all. Thomas Cromwell remains a controversial and mysterious figure. Mantel has filled in the blanks plausibly, brilliantly. “Wolf Hall” has epic scale but lyric texture. Its 500-plus pages turn quickly, winged and falconlike... [It] is both spellbinding and believable. Está contido emTem a adaptaçãoTem como estudo
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Along the way there are plots among plots and the bodies pile up like cordwood. Cromwell is a totally despicable person, and yet you find yourself thinking, “Is he really any worse than anyone else.?”
This is a great portrait of a brutal age and a complicated man. (