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The Man on a Donkey
A powerful novel of England during the reign of Henry VIII. When the King's men despoil the monasteries and divide the wealth among the royal favorites, rebellion begins to brew in the north--and for a few weeks, the leader held the fate of a nation in his hands.
Paperback, 640 pages
Published
April 1st 1981
by MacMillan Publishing Company
(first published 1952)
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C1952. My edition does not seem to be on GR so I have just randomly chosen this one. Hilary Mantel had cited this book as one of her favourite novels about the Tudor period. So, I had to read it. Like all really good books, this book has stood the test of time. Every now and then, I would start to think that I really couldn’t be doing with some of the archaic language. I mean it was all “My Lord” this and My Lord that but then before I knew it, another couple of chapters had whizzed by.“Thunder...more
Jul 11, 2009
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What a GREAT novel this is.
I read it in 1966, a thick heavy blue hardback, just the thing for wiling away my life in the monastery reading about the dissolution of the same!!!!
And the prioress of Marrick was just one of the many colourful characters who were about to become victims of Henry VIII's machinations. Boy, I met lots of that type of self-interested religious
superior. And more of that type after I'd leapt over the monastic wall and gone into teaching. Human nature is pretty constant ove...more
I read it in 1966, a thick heavy blue hardback, just the thing for wiling away my life in the monastery reading about the dissolution of the same!!!!
And the prioress of Marrick was just one of the many colourful characters who were about to become victims of Henry VIII's machinations. Boy, I met lots of that type of self-interested religious
superior. And more of that type after I'd leapt over the monastic wall and gone into teaching. Human nature is pretty constant ove...more
I read this many years ago and thought it one of the best I'd read. Prescott is so immersed in Tudor history, especially Mary Tudor, she writes as if she had been there. This is an outstanding chronicling the attack of the Church by Henry VIII in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Her scholarship is about th beest there is. My English friend remembers her as sitting at the head table when she was a student in Durham. I found a copy in a used book store in London, and have treasured it. A friend who rec...more
It's a terrible thing when, for the sake of publicity, a publisher puts a claim on the front of a book that it's the greatest historical novel ever written. That's a lot to live up to...and frankly, I wouldn't say The Man on a Donkey even comes close.
It took me over three months to read this book - something virtually unheard of for me - and I have to blame that on the cumbersome writing. I frequently found myself drifting as I was reading this novel, constantly having to pull myself back and r...more
It took me over three months to read this book - something virtually unheard of for me - and I have to blame that on the cumbersome writing. I frequently found myself drifting as I was reading this novel, constantly having to pull myself back and r...more
My favourite period of English history, a time when you could not sit on the fence but had to swear oaths regarding your religious convictions not knowing which way the wind would blow next.
A good read with a fair bit of detail about food and clothes, could do with a glossary as I was looking up food and dress terms a fair bit.
I'd heard of Aske's execution by hanging in chains in other literature but this book brings home the horror of it.
Cromwell is described as a soft handed man in this text,...more
A good read with a fair bit of detail about food and clothes, could do with a glossary as I was looking up food and dress terms a fair bit.
I'd heard of Aske's execution by hanging in chains in other literature but this book brings home the horror of it.
Cromwell is described as a soft handed man in this text,...more
One of my favorite books. This is the only novel novel I have reread several times.
A classic of great historical fiction.
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Hilda Francis Margaret Prescott was born in Cheshire, the daughter of Rev James Mulleneux Prescott and his wife Margaret (née Warburton). She was educated at Wallasey High School. She read Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she received her first M.A.. Subsequently she was awarded a second M.A. at Manchester University, where she did research under the direction of T...more
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