false 16204 92163 0517223546 9780517223543 184 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92163.Sarum_The_Novel_of_England 3.93 1592

From the Paperback edition.]]> 16204 3.85 6332 941 1987 92160 0345455681 9780345455680 219 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92160.London_The_Novel 3.91 1492 London, stretches two millennia all the way from Roman times to the present. The author places his vignettes at the most dramatic moments of that city's history, leaping from Caesar's invasion to the Norman Conquest to the Great Fire to (of course) the Blitz, with many stops in between. London is ambitious, and students of English history will eat it up. The author doesn't skimp on historical detail, and that's a signal pleasure of the book. Ultimately, though, the structure of the novel determines the lion's share of its success. Rutherfurd is a good storyteller and each vignette makes for a good story; however, he has given himself the inevitable task of beginning what amounts to a new book every 40 pages or so. Just as one begins to warm to the characters, they are hurried off the stage. You can't read London without a scorecard—but that's part of the fun.

Historical Fiction. The novel covers the major historical events in the history of London. The book follows several families throughout numerous generations as the different events occur. The author used aritfacts from the Museum of London to inspire the story.]]> 16204 3.85 6332 941 1997 28867 0345472357 9780345472359 204 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167957199m/28867.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167957199s/28867.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28867.The_Princes_of_Ireland 3.70 1090 London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing fiction and well-researched fact to capture the essence of a place.

Edward Rutherfurd has introduced millions of readers to the human dramas that are the lifeblood of history. From his first bestseller, Sarum, to the #1 bestseller London, he has captivated audiences with gripping narratives that follow the fortunes of several fictional families down through the ages. The Princes of Ireland, a sweeping panorama steeped in the tragedy and glory that is Ireland, epitomizes the power and richness of Rutherfurd’s storytelling magic.

The saga begins in pre-Christian Ireland with a clever refashioning of the legend of Cuchulainn, and culminates in the dramatic founding of the Free Irish State in 1922. Through the interlocking stories of a wonderfully imagined cast of characters -- monks and noblemen, soldiers and rebels, craftswomen and writers -- Rutherfurd vividly conveys the personal passions and shared dreams that shaped the character of the country. He takes readers inside all the major events in Irish history: the reign of the fierce and mighty kings of Tara; the mission of Saint Patrick; the Viking invasion and the founding of Dublin; the trickery of Henry II, which gave England its foothold on the island in 1167; the plantations of the Tudors and the savagery of Cromwell; the flight of the “Wild Geese”; the failed rebellion of 1798; the Great Famine and the Easter Rebellion. With Rutherfurd’s well-crafted storytelling, readers witness the rise of the Fenians in the late nineteenth century, the splendours of the Irish cultural renaissance, and the bloody battles for Irish independence, as though experiencing their momentous impact firsthand.

Tens of millions of North Americans claim Irish descent. Generations of people have been enchanted by Irish literature, and visitors flock to Dublin and its environs year after year. The Princes of Ireland will appeal to all of them -- and to anyone who relishes epic entertainment spun by a master.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 16204 3.85 6332 941 2004 92161 0804109729 9780804109727 76 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92161.Russka_The_Novel_of_Russia 3.80 558 THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, author of the phenomenally successful SARUM: THE NOVEL OF ENGLAND, tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story of a great civilization made human, played out through the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of their land.
"Rutherford's RUSSKA succeeds....[He] can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE]]> 16204 3.85 6332 941 1991 92159 0345441788 9780345441782 43 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92159.The_Forest 3.83 502 “AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD’S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON.”
–The Boston Globe

“Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest, a 100,000-acre woodland in southern England . . . Rutherfurd sketches the histories of six fictional families, ranging from aristocrats to peasants, who have lived in the forest for generations. . . . But the real success is in how Rutherfurd paints his picture of the wooded enclave with images of treachery and violence, as well as magic and beauty.”
–The New York Post

“THE FOREST IS MICHENER TOLD WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT.”
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“TALES OF LOVE AND HONOR, DECEIT AND VIOLENCE, INHERITANCE AND LOSS.”
–San Jose Mercury News

]]> 16204 3.85 6332 941 2000 51433 0345472365 9780345472366 85 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170379432m/51433.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170379432s/51433.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51433.The_Rebels_of_Ireland 3.90 443 The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.
  
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest.

Edward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families; a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant; a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test; men who risk their lives and their children’s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. Rutherfurd spins the saga of Ireland’s 400-year path to independence in all its drama, tragedy, and glory through the stories of people from all strata of society--Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.
 
His richly detailed narrative brings to life watershed moments and events, from the time of plantation settlements to the “Flight of the Earls,” when the native aristocracy fled the island, to Cromwell’s suppression of the population and the imposition of the harsh anti-Catholic penal laws. He describes the hardships of ordinary people and the romantic, doomed attempt to overthrow the Protestant oppressors, which ended in defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the departure of the “Wild Geese.” In vivid tones Rutherfurd re-creates Grattan’s Parliament, Wolfe Tone's attempted French invasion of 1798, the tragic rising of Robert Emmet, the Catholic campaign of Daniel O’Connell, the catastrophic famine, the mass migration to America, and the glorious Irish Renaissance of Yeats and Joyce. And through the eyes of his characters, he captures the rise of Charles Stewart Parnell and the great Irish nationalists and the birth of an Ireland free of all ties to England.
 
A tale of fierce battles, hot-blooded romances, and family and political intrigues, The Rebels of Ireland brings the story begun in The Princes of Ireland to a stunning conclusion.]]> 16204 3.85 6332 941 2004 6056292 1846051959 9781846051951 6 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6056292.New_York 3.93 28 16204 3.85 6332 941 2009 6779668 0786108401 9780786108404 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6779668-sarum 4.00 1 16204 3.85 6332 941 226848 3.91 87 27 3027924 4.00 1 0 1998 506173 0736650555 9780736650557 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/506173.The_Forest_Part_2_Of_2 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 2000 6726987 1433254697 9781433254697 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6726987-sarum 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 3027924 4.00 1 0 2008 6726988 1433254700 9781433254703 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6726988-sarum 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 3027924 4.00 1 0 2008 506174 0736649832 9780736649834 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175329472m/506174.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175329472s/506174.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/506174.The_Forest_Part_1_Of_2 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 2000 704843 0736640711 9780736640718 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704843.London_Part_3_Of_3 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 1998 704847 0736640703 9780736640701 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704847.London_Part_2_Of_3 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 1998 704844 073664069X 9780736640695 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177447726m/704844.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177447726s/704844.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/704844.London_Part_1_Of_3 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 1998 3123274 0786106859 9780786106851 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255887844m/3123274.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255887844s/3123274.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3123274.Russka_Part_2 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 1994 3123273 0786106840 9780786106844 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255887839m/3123273.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255887839s/3123273.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3123273.Russka_Part_1 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 1994 7044897 0736642412 9780736642415 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7044897-sarum-part-i 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 1998 1853146 0786108398 9780786108398 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1853146.Sarum 0.0 0

From the Paperback edition.]]> 16204 3.85 6332 941 1994 7044896 0736642439 9780736642439 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7044896-sarum-part-iii 0.0 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 1998 4371908 0853318549 9780853318545 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4371908.Jeanne_Masoero_A_Survey 0.0 0 273691 3.00 1 0 16204 3.85 6332 941 168307 4.40 10 2 2005