Wolf Hall
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hilary Mantel.
Edition: First US Edition (5)
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780805080681
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Cromwell, Thomas, -- Earl of Essex, -- 1485?-1540 -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: 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 said that he can recite the entire New Testament from memory, knows Europe's major languages, and speaks poetry freely--Cromwell soon becomes the country's most powerful figure after Henry. When Henry pursues his desire to marry Anne Boleyn, it is Cromwell who breaks the deadlock and allows the king his heart's desire. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition--Thomas More, "the man for all seasons", Katherine the queen; his daughter the princess Mary--but what will be the price of his triumph?

(front flap)
Table of contents: title: Cast of Characters
pagenum: xii; title: Family Trees
pagenum: xviii; title: Part One; label: I
title: Across the Narrow Sea. 1500
pagenum: 3; label: II
title: Paternity. 1527
pagenum: 14; label: III
title: At Austin Friars. 1527
pagenum: 28; title: Part Two; label: I
title: Visitation. 1529
pagenum: 39; label: II
title: An Occult History of Britian. 1521-1529
pagenum: 54; label: III
title: Make or Mar. All Hallows 1529
pagenum: 127; title: Part Three; label: I
title: Three-Card Trick. Winter 1529-Spring 1530
pagenum: 133; label: II
title: Entirely Beloved Cromwell.  Spring-December 1530
pagenum: 163; label: III
title: The Dead Complain of Their Burial. Christmastide 1530
pagenum: 223; title: Part Four; label: I
title: Arrange Your Face. 1531
pagenum: 235; label: II
title: "Alas, What Sall I do for Love?" Spring 1532
pagenum: 277; label: III
title: Early Mass. November 1532
pagenum: 340; title: Part Five; label: I
title: Anna Regina. 1533
pagenum: 343; label: II
title: Devil's Spit. Autum and Winter 1533
pagenum: 396; label: III
title: A Painter's Eye. 1534
pagenum: 430; title: Part Six; label: I
title: Supremacy. 1534
pagenum: 435; label: II
title: The Map of Christendom. 1534-1535
pagenum: 475; label: III
title: To Wolf Hall. July 1535
pagenum: 525; title: Author's Note
pagenum: 533; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 535