英语电子书|The Mirror and the Light
养成阅读英语电子书的习惯,让自己徜徉在英语书的海洋里!
书籍英文名: The Mirror and the Light
书籍作者:Hilary Mantel
书籍简介:’If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’
England, May 1536.
Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.
As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.
The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.
Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on – he has no great family to back him, no private army.
Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future.
But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin?
Do the dead continually unbury themselves?
What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?
With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision – of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.
购买提示:付款后,英语电子书会在2小时内发送到您的邮箱!如有疑问请 Englishrise微信客服号(微信ID:jinglinwangzi886),谢谢!
更多中文电子书下载 charlesyin1204.com
其他英语电子书推荐
英语电子书|Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs
英语电子书|Building Machine Learning Powered Applications: Going From Idea to Product