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Langue : anglais
Edité par Random House of Canada, 1998
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- Titre
- Life of Thomas More
- Auteur
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Éditeur
- Random House of Canada
- Année de publication
- 1998
- État de l'article
- Good
- Reliure
- Couverture rigide
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1856197115
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781856197113
- Édition
- First Edition.
- Poids de l'article
- 2,024 livres
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Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history; his life and career epitomize the great transformation of the country in the space of 35 years. This biography investigates the paradox of this "man for all seasons": the man of the world who travelled across Europe to negotiate on behalf of his king, and the unworldly man whose careful silence on the matter of Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn would lead to his disgrace and execution. The book provides a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and cultural world in which he lived.
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"Full of brilliant insight, and one stands in awe of Ackroyd's learning, confident that this is the life of Thomas More for our times" (Independent on Sunday)
"Thanks to Ackroyd's skill, scrupulous research and inspired interpretation of historical texts, vital sparks of life have been breathed into the austere icon" (Daily Mail)
"Marvellously vivid... He has an excellent visual sense and a sharp eye for hte particularities of daily existence... His is a reliable, colourful and deeply enjoyable life of an extraordinary man" (Guardian)
"Ackroyd tells More's story with imaginative sympathy and impeccable scholarship...masterly" (Observer)
"Comprehensive and subtle... Ackroyd imbues his book with a pregnant richness of colour which makes one almost smell and hear 16th-century London... It has been said that Ackroyd is today's best writer about London, and this biography adds to that reputation" (Mail on Sunday)
"Thanks to Ackroyd's skill, scrupulous research and inspired interpretation of historical texts, vital sparks of life have been breathed into the austere icon" (Daily Mail)
"Marvellously vivid... He has an excellent visual sense and a sharp eye for hte particularities of daily existence... His is a reliable, colourful and deeply enjoyable life of an extraordinary man" (Guardian)
"Ackroyd tells More's story with imaginative sympathy and impeccable scholarship...masterly" (Observer)
"Comprehensive and subtle... Ackroyd imbues his book with a pregnant richness of colour which makes one almost smell and hear 16th-century London... It has been said that Ackroyd is today's best writer about London, and this biography adds to that reputation" (Mail on Sunday)
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