| International Standard Book Number |
9780802167859
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| International Standard Book Number |
0802167853
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
823/.92
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| Personal Name |
Borman, Tracy, author.
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| Title Statement |
The House of Boleyn / Tracy Borman.
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| Edition Statement |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
407 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Acclaimed Tudor historian Tracy Borman weaves the dramatic history of the Boleyn family into a richly imagined novel of ambition, bloodlines, and the opulent and deadly court of Henry VIII. When nobleman Thomas Boleyn, lord of Hever Castle, is called to London in 1509 to present himself to a newly anointed King Henry VIII, he sets in train events that ensure the Boleyn name will never be forgotten. His daughters Mary and Anne were young then, and though he was ambitious for his family to prosper, he could not imagine what would transpire in the two decades to come. Blending the history she knows so well with the creativity of her imagination, Tracy Borman brings the Boleyn family's three-decade rise and precipitous fall to vivid life. Borman surrounds the main dramatic events of the Boleyn saga with a colorful tableau in which familial and inter-familial rivalries threaten and true love often loses out to keen ambition. Anne's ever-loyal attendant Esther Frideswide and Thomas Boleyn's perfidious steward Robert Cranwell are as memorable as Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, or anyone in the increasingly dangerous orbit of the royal court. Henry VIII pursues Anne relentlessly, showering her with gifts as the Boleyns are catapulted to political prominence. But when she can't give him the son and heir he desperately seeks, the family faces a terrible and bloody fate."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Bolen family Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Boleyn, Mary, 1508-1543 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Kings and rulers Great Britain Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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