The Wolf Hall Trilogy
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: slipcase: good
From the gilded corridors of Hampton Court to the blood-soaked scaffold of Tower Hill, Hilary Mantel's The Wolf Hall Trilogy stands as one of the most towering achievements in contemporary historical fiction — a magisterial, three-volume portrait of Tudor England as seen through the coldly brilliant eyes of Thomas Cromwell. Comprising Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012), and The Mirror & the Light (2020), the trilogy chronicles Cromwell's meteoric rise from the son of a Putney blacksmith to the most powerful man in the court of Henry VIII, mapping every calculation, betrayal, and heartbreak along the way with extraordinary psychological precision. Mantel's prose is an instrument of rare sophistication — intimate yet sweeping, forensic yet deeply humane — deploying a bold present-tense, close-third-person narration that places the reader directly behind Cromwell's watchful eyes, making the familiar machinery of Tudor history feel startlingly new and dangerous. The trilogy uncovers the human cost of power with unflinching clarity, interrogating questions of loyalty, conscience, gender, and survival that resonate far beyond the sixteenth century. A two-time Booker Prize winner for the first two volumes, this is a work of literature that utterly redefines what the historical novel can be — and the final reckoning it delivers will linger long after the last page is turned.
Author: Hilary Mantel
Format: Hardback
Published: 2020, 4th Estate
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: slipcase: good
From the gilded corridors of Hampton Court to the blood-soaked scaffold of Tower Hill, Hilary Mantel's The Wolf Hall Trilogy stands as one of the most towering achievements in contemporary historical fiction — a magisterial, three-volume portrait of Tudor England as seen through the coldly brilliant eyes of Thomas Cromwell. Comprising Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012), and The Mirror & the Light (2020), the trilogy chronicles Cromwell's meteoric rise from the son of a Putney blacksmith to the most powerful man in the court of Henry VIII, mapping every calculation, betrayal, and heartbreak along the way with extraordinary psychological precision. Mantel's prose is an instrument of rare sophistication — intimate yet sweeping, forensic yet deeply humane — deploying a bold present-tense, close-third-person narration that places the reader directly behind Cromwell's watchful eyes, making the familiar machinery of Tudor history feel startlingly new and dangerous. The trilogy uncovers the human cost of power with unflinching clarity, interrogating questions of loyalty, conscience, gender, and survival that resonate far beyond the sixteenth century. A two-time Booker Prize winner for the first two volumes, this is a work of literature that utterly redefines what the historical novel can be — and the final reckoning it delivers will linger long after the last page is turned.