Hilary Mantel Lot All 3 Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / Mirror and the Light

Description: The Complete Wolf Hall Trilogy<>Wolf HallBring Up the BodiesThe Mirror & the Light<>by Hilary MantelThis lot includes all three books in Ms. Mantel's retelling of the events in the court of Henry VIII, with the focus on Thomas Cromwell. The Wolf Hall series on PBS was based on these books.All book are large paperbacks in very good condition. Spines are uncreased on all books. Front and back covers are almost uncreased. There are no marks in the books.==============================================================================================================================Additional Information about Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2010, Paperback)Certain data records © 2013 Bowker. Rights in cover images reserved by owners.SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and 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's Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." ( The Boston Globe ).Reviews"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 . . . . This is a novel too in which nothing is wasted, and nothing completely disappears."Stephen Greenblatt,The New York Review of Books "On the origins of this once-world-shaking combat, with its still-vivid acerbity and cruelty, Hilary Mantel has written a historical novel of quite astonishing power. . . . With breathtaking subtletyone quite ceases to notice the way in which she takes on the most intimate male habits of thought and speechMantel gives us a Henry who is sexually pathetic, and who needs a very down-to-earth counselor. . . . The means by which Mantel grounds and anchors her action so convincingly in the time she describes, while drawing so easily upon the past and hinting so indirectly at the future, put her in the very first rank of historical novelists. . . .Wolf Hall is a magnificent service to the language and literature whose early emancipation it depicts and also, in its demystifying of one of history's wickedest men, a service to the justice that Josephine Tey first demanded inThe Daughter of Time."Christopher Hitchens,The Atlantic "Whether we accept Ms Mantel's reading of history or not, her characters have a lifeblood of their own . . . . a Shakespearean vigour. Stylistically, her fly-on-the-wall approach is achieved through the present tense, of which she is a master. Her prose is muscular, avoiding cod Tudor dialogue and going for direct modern English. The result is Ms Mantel's best novel yet."The Economist "A novel both fresh and finely wrought: a brilliant portrait of a society in the throes of disorienting change, anchored by a penetrating character study of Henry's formidable advisor, Thomas Cromwell. It's no wonder that her masterful book just won this year's Booker Prize . . . [Mantel's prose is] extraordinarily flexible, subtle, and shrewd."Wendy Smith,The Washington Post "[Mantel's] interest is in the question of good and evil as it applies to people who wield great power. That means anguish, exultation, deals, spies, decapitations, and fabulous clothes . . . She always goes for color, richness, music. She has read Shakespeare closely. One also hears the accents of the young James Joyce."Joan Acocella,The New Yorker "Dazzling . . . .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 . . . . both spellbinding and believable."Christopher Benfey,The New York Times Book Review "Mantel's abilities to channel the life and lexicon of the past are nothing short of astonishing. She burrows down through the historical record to uncover the tiniest, most telling details, evoking the minutiae of history as vividly as its grand sweep. The dialogue is so convincing that she seems to have been, in another life, a stenographer taking notes in the taverns and palaces of England."Ross King,Los AngelesTimes =====Additional Information about Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2013, Paperback)Certain data records © 2013 Bowker. Rights in cover images reserved by owners.SynopsisThe sequel to Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and "New York Times"-bestseller "Wolf Hall" delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review The Washington Post Publishers Weekly Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Time USA Today The Economist NPR The Atlantic Los Angeles Times The Wall Street Journal Chicago Tribune Entertainment Weekly The Daily Beast Financial Times The Christian Science Monitor San Francisco Chronicle Seattle Times The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Though he battled for years to marry hera story told in Wolf Hall Henry is now disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son, and her sharp intelligence alienates his old friends and the noble families of England. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over a few terrifying weeks, Cromwell ensnares her in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour waits her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle, and to defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must now ally himself with his enemies. What price will he pay for Anne's head? Hailed around the world as a stunning literary achievement, Bring Up the Bodies evokes this frightening episode of English history as no book has before.Reviews"Darkly magnificent...Mantel animates history with a political and psychological acuity equal to Tolstoy's."--- The Washington Post "Beautifully constructed...The wonder of Mantel's retelling is that she makes these events fresh and terrifying all over again....Sublime."---Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Marvelous, intoxicating...Read Bring Up the Bodies for its chilling character profile, its period details on jousting and Tudor kitchens, its congregation of the seven deadly sins....Nobody should skip a heady word of Mantel's planned trilogy."--- The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Mantel has the maddeningly unteachable gift of being interesting....All is alive, silvery, alert, rapid with insight."---James Wood, The New Yorker "Meticulously crafted...Superb...Highly entertaining...Brilliant."--- Slate "Fantastic...A more propulsive reading experience than rivals like Philippa Gregory's hugely popular novel The Other Boleyn Girl ."--- The Wall Street Journal "There is no one else writing with Mantel's verve and control, her talent for richly wrought story, crisp pace, and direct prose."--- The Miami Herald "Mantel writes the kind of sentences you want to live in.... Bring Up the Bodies isn't just her boldest book, it's also her best."---Michael Schaub, NPR "[ Bring Up the Bodies ] is astringent and purifying, stripping away the cobwebs and varnish of history, the antique formulations and brocaded sentimentality of costume drama novels, so that the English past comes to seem like something vivid , strange and brand new." The New York Times Book Review "Hilary Mantel made waves in 2009 with her Man Booker Prize-winning page-turner, Wolf Hall ...The second in her planned trilogy, Bring Up the Bodies stalks Anne Boleyn and the soap-opera worthy machinations of Cromwell and his evil allies to bring down the powerful wife of the king. Who knew history could be so sexy?" Vanity Fair "What's being called the Wolf Hall Trilogy is a remarkable work in progress, a series that makes the past feel immediate andthis is the best partunpredictable. Even if you know the history, you'll find yourself racing through these pages to find out what happens next." People "After pulling off this literary feat twice, you realize the smartest person in the room isn't Cromwell after allit's Mantel." The Huffington Post "Fans of Wolf Hall will relish this book, but Bring Up the Bodies also stands alone...Her characters are real and vivid people who bring to life the clash of ideals that gripped England at the time. She makes the past present and vital." The Economist " Bring Up the Bodies stands magnificently on its own...such is [Mantel's] skill" LA Times "You won't be able to tear your eyes away." The Seattle Times "In Mantel's hands, Cromwell's cunning, morally complicated orchestration of that historic slice through the royal neck is as exciting as any thriller." Entertainment Weekly "With wit, daring style, and a staggering breadth of historical knowledge, Mantel breathes new life into reclaimed territory." 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