Research Catalog

Title

The mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel.

Author

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022

Publication

• New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022.

Description

xvii, 757 pages : genealogical tables; 25 cm

Summary

""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage"--

Alternative Title

Mirror and the light

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Henry > VIII, > King of England, > 1491-1547
• Henry > VIII, > King of England, > 1491-1547 > Fiction
• History
• 1509-1547
• Great Britain > History > Henry VIII, 1509-1547 > Fiction
• Historical fiction
• FICTION / Literary
• Political fiction
• Fiction
• Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 > Fiction
• Courts and courtiers > Fiction
• England > History > Cromwell
• FICTION / Historical / General

Genre/Form

• Political fiction.
• Historical fiction.
• Fiction.
• History.
• England – History – Cromwell.

Note

• Sequel to Wolf hall (2009) and Bring up the bodies (2012).

Contents

Part 1. Wreckage (I). London, May 1535 ; Salvage. London, Summer 1536 ; Wreckage (II). London, Summer 1536 -- Part 2. Augmentation. London, Autumn 1536 ; The five wounds. London, Autumn 1536 ; Vile blood. London, Autumn-Winter 1536 -- Part 3. The bleach fields. Spring 1537 ; The image of the king. Spring-Summer 1537 ; Broken on the body. London 1537 -- Part 4. Nonsuch. Winter 1537-Spring 1538 ; Corpus Christi. June-December 1538 ; Inheritance. December 1538 -- Part 5. Ascension day. Spring-Summer 1539 ; Twelfth night. Autumn 1539 ; Magnificence. January-June 1540 -- Part 6. Mirror. June-July 1540 ; Light: 28 July 1540.

Call Number

JFE 21-65

ISBN

• 9781250622587
• 1250622581
• 9780805096606
• 0805096604
• 9780805096613 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019051189

OCLC

1128890576

Author

Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022, author.

Title

The mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel.

Publisher

New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First U.S edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1509-1547

Added Author

Sequel to: Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022. Wolf hall.

Sequel to: Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022. Bring up the bodies.

Other Form:

Online version: Mantel, Hilary, 1952- The mirror & the light First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. 9780805096613 (DLC) 2019051190 (OCoLC)1129398380

Research Call Number

JFE 21-65