Земные радости - Philippa Gregory, Н. Наказнюк • BookLikes (ISBN:9785699481804)

Земные радости

by: Philippa Gregory (author) Н. Наказнюк (author)

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9785699481804

Publish date: 2011

Publisher: Эксмо

Pages no: 688

Edition language: Russian

Category:

European Literature, British Literature, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance

Series: Earthly Joys (#1)

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Summary From Publishers WeeklySeventeenth-century England is the setting for this engaging historical novel based on the life of John Tradescant, a gardener of common birth who transforms plain plots of land into slices of heaven on earth. As vassal to the secretary of state, Sir Robert Cecil, Trade...

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Once I got into this book I couldn't put it down. One thing Gregory does really well is to portray characters who, while not noble, still get caught up in Court intrigue. Earthly Joys is a good example of that.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story - the second novel featuring the Duke of Buckingham that I've read within a month! I found Gregory's prose easy to read, her assuredness in her historical detail very gratifying, and her protagonists - all of them - highly sympathetic (but most particularly John Trade...

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