Dublin: Foundation - Couverture rigide

Rutherfurd, Edward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712680004 ISBN 13 : 9780712680004

Editeur : Century, 2004

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Following the critically acclaimed success of Dublin, this riveting sequel takes the story of Ireland from the seventeenth century onwards, picking up at the Reformation, and with it, the devastating arrival of Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell heralds the inauguration of two hundred years of Protestant dominance, throughout which many of the Irish people were impoverished and dispossessed. Dublin is made a Protestant capital, and Catholics become an underclass.

Set against the dramatic backdrop of Irish political history, this powerful saga is brought to its conclusion. Journeying through the centuries right the way up to the twentieth century's Easter Rising and Independence, passing through turbulent milestones such as The Year of the French, the Famine and The Home Rule Movement of Parnell along the way.

'The author bounds excitedly through Irish history, interweaving narrative with historical encounters... Rutherfurd keeps racing through the pages' Daily Express

'Breathtaking... an astounding achievement' Frank Delaney

'Sublime talent... this is history with a human face and a fanciful soul' Good Book Guide

'Edward Rutherfurd has written about Dublin with love. It is an expertly researched and highly readable account of a place he has grown to know well' Maeve Binchy, Ireland on Sunday

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Edward Rutherfurd's great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From this stirring beginning, Rutherfurd takes the reader on a graphically realised journey through the centuries. Through the interlocking stories of a powerfully-imagined cast of characters - druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, merchants and mercenaries, noblewomen, rebels and cowards - we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Century
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0712680004
• ISBN 13: 9780712680004
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 800