Ireland ​Awakening (The Dublin Saga 2.) 1 csillagozás

Edward Rutherfurd: Ireland Awakening Edward Rutherfurd: Ireland Awakening

Few ​authors are as ambitious as Edward Rutherford. And Dublin: Foundation, the first of a massive two-part epic, is possibly Rutherford's most challenging undertaking yet--and (on the evidence of this first book) could well be his most considerable achievement. Rutherford's sheer readability belies his obvious seriousness. His arm-straining volumes may cover every possible variety of human experience (couched in historical backgrounds of immense detail and authenticity), but he remains a storyteller of no mean skills. From the early books that made his name (notably the much-acclaimed Sarum), through to the more recent blockbuster London, the author has combined a panoramic, Homeric vision with a James-Joyce like concentration on the minutiae of everyday life; the results of this synthesis are brought to perfectly honed effect in Dublin: Foundation.
Parallels with Joyce's Dublin are not appropriate here, though. The scope is far wider and stretches back into history.… (tovább)

The Rebels of Ireland címmel is megjelent.

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2006

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Cornerstone, 2011
944 oldal · ASIN: B004J4VZDE
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Arrow, Washington, 2007
920 oldal · ISBN: 9780099476559

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