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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 i.
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PDF/EPUB Hilary Mantel ☆ Wolf Hall Kindle ´ ☆ wolf mobile, hall book, Wolf Hall PDFThe thing to remember when starting this book is that 99% percent of the time the pronoun 'he' refers to Cromwell even at times when the sentence structure makes it seems like 'he' would be someone else It took me a short while to realize this but once I did I was fine You are in Cromwell's head; you see everything from his perspective As he reacts to others' reactions of him many times he is bemused to see how he is thought of another layer of characterization is addedThis novel is beautifully written with uniue descriptions I love when authors can pull that uniueness off not easy
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PDF/EPUB Hilary Mantel ☆ Wolf Hall Kindle ´ ☆ wolf mobile, hall book, Wolf Hall PDFThe fate of peoples is made like this two men in small rooms Forget the coronations the conclaves of cardinals the pomp and processions This is how the world changes a counter pushed across a table a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase a woman’s sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain the discrete sigh of flesh against flesh Uneasy lies the head that wears the crownbut really crown wearers seem to have little difficulty with fabrication Do they mean lie as in lying down? I mean I would take it o
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