Wolf Hall

a novel

Hardcover

English language

Published Nov. 2, 2009 by John Macrae/Henry Holt and Company.

ISBN:
978-0-8050-8068-1
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OCLC Number:
1060973852

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In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power

England 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 creates a years-long power struggle between the Church and the Crown.

Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original man, both a charmer and a bully, an idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy. Cromwell is a consummate politician, hardened by years abroad and his personal losses. Implacable in his ambition and self-taught--it is …

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Subjects

  • Cromwell, Thomas, -- Earl of Essex, -- 1485?-1540 -- Fiction
  • Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Fiction