Merivel: A Man of His Time
The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift for turning sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair master? Is he the King's friend or the King's slave?In search of answers, Merivel sets off for the French court. But Versailles-all glitter in front and squalor behind-leaves Merivel in despair, until a chance encounter with Madame de Flamanville, a seductive Swiss botanist, allows him to dream of an honorable future.Yet will that future ever be his? Back home at Bidnold…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-07957-9
- EAN: 9780393079579
- Produktnummer: 13770513
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 373 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.1 cm 658 g
- Gewicht: 658
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Rose Tremain's prize-winning books, including The Road Home, The Gustav Sonata, Merivel, and The American Lover, have been published in thirty countries. Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and member of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in Norfolk, England with the biographer Richard Holmes.
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