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Bezig met laden... Nothing Left to Fear from Hell: Darkland Tales (editie 2023)door Alan Warner (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A fictionalized depiction of Bonnie Prince Charlie's harrowing journey around the Scottish isles until he could escape to France. Reminder of the danger to him and the consequences to the Highlanders. ( ) Warner's first foray into historical fiction for Polygon's Darkland Tales recounts the flight of Charles Edward Stuart from Scotland in the months after the Jacobite army's defeat at Culloden in April 1746. It's thoughtful stuff, clever and brooding and sorrowful and darkly humorous while remaining tightly bound to the narrative tradition of this storied historical fulcrum. And it's beautiful, if not always in the imagery then at least in the way in which Warner's prose captures both landscape and human interaction with a biting verisimilitude that defies the primitivity of most fictive sallies into historic territories. In his afterword, the author explains that his challenge was to explore the 'fundamental mystery' of what the Bonnie Prince's epic coda was really like, and this particular scholar of the Jacobite era can fully endorse that he accomplishes that goal with equal parts criticism and compassion that is as interesting and as relevant as anything that Prebble, Broster, Stevenson, and Scott have ever penned. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the mountainous landscapes of the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Award-winning author Alan Warner traces the last journey through Scotland of Bonnie Prince Charlie, a man who history will come to define for his failure. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-WaarderingGemiddelde:
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