A place of greater safety
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Hilary Mantel
- ناشر : New York : Atheneum : Maxwell Macmillan Internationa
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 1993
- شابک / ISBN : 9780689121685
Description
Author's Note ix Cast of Characters xi PART ONE I. Life as a Battlefield (1765-1774) 5 II. Corpse- Candle (1774-17 80) 30 III. At Maitre Vinot's (1780) 51 PART TWO I. The Theory of Ambition (1784- 1787) 61 II. Rue Conde: Thursday Afternoon (1787) 78 III. Maximilien: Life and Times (1787) 98 IV. A Wedding, a Riot, a Prince of the Blood (1787-1788) 111 V. A New Profession (1788) 130 VI. Last Days of Titonville (1789) 160 VII. Killing Time (1789) 210 PART THREE I. Virgins (1789) 237 II. Liberty, Gaiety, Royal Democracy (1790) 280 III. Lady's Pleasure (1791) 313 IV. More Acts of the Apostles (1791) 342 PART FOUR I. A Lucky Hand (1791) 375 II. Danton: His Portrait Made (1791) 389 III. Three Blades, Two in Reserve (1791-1792) 407 IV. The Tactics of a Bull (1792) 427 V. Burning the Bodies (1792) 439 PART FIVE I. Conspirators (1792) 493 II. Robespierricide (1792) 535 III. The Visible Exercise of Power (1792-1793) 568 IV. Blackmail (1793) 587 V. A Martyr, a King, a Child (1793) 602 VI. A Secret History (1793) 612 VII. Carnivores (1793) 639 VIII. Imperfect Contrition (1793) 660 IX. East Indians (1793) 681 X. The Marquis Calls (1793) 717 XI. The Old Cordeliers (1793- 1794) 760 XII. Ambivalence (1794) 794 XIII. Conditional Absolution (1794) 820 Note 873
With A Place of Greater Safety Hilary Mantel makes her American debut in a dazzling and magisterial novel about one of the most crucial - and shattering - events in modern history, the French Revolution. Already acclaimed in ber native England, this hook should provoke an equally enthusiastic response from readers on this side of tbe Atlantic. At the center of this bold epic are three men who led the revolt against
