The School of Night
by:
Louis Bayard (author)
This literary thriller with an historical twist will appeal to readers of The Da Vinci Code and The Shadow of the Wind
This literary thriller with an historical twist will appeal to readers of The Da Vinci Code and The Shadow of the Wind
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781848542181 (1848542186)
Publish date: March 1st 2011
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Writing,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime
This book kept me on my toes. I would start to think it was one thing and then became another. The ending was a complete surprise and made the book all the more fun. I will surely go back and reread some day.
Synopsis“A shared quest and a mysterious cabal, four centuries apart . . .When Henry Cavendish attends the funeral of an old friend, the last thing he expects is to be given a business proposition. A handsome sum to retrieve a document that was in his friend’s possession when he died ; a letter from...
It was difficult to believe that Alonzo Wax was dead. He was a collector extraordinaire, books, papers, antiquities. He was also a tornado of a personality, who seemed rather an unlikely suicide. His friend, Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish, is surprised to learn that he has been named executor o...
In 16th century England, a group of noted Elizabethan scholars gathered in secret to discuss potentially heretical ideas; this group is known to modern historians as the “School of Night.” 400 years later, Henry Cavendish and his friend Alonzo Wax sought to create such a philosophical school of thei...
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