Dorothy Dunnett

Broschiertes Buch

The Unicorn Hunt

The House of Niccolo 5

Beschreibung

The fifth title in the "House of Niccolo" sequence, recreating the perilous world of trade, war and banking in Renaissance Europe. Niccolo has returned to Venice from Africa - richer, wiser yet ever unpredictable. He journeys to Scotland, closer at hand to the secrets of his birth.

Autor

Frequently described as the finest historical fiction writer of her time, Dorothy Dunnett earned worldwide acclaim for her blend of scholarship and imagination. She is best known for her two superb series of historical fiction - The Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolo - set in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and ranging across Europe and the Mediterranean, and for King Hereafter, the eleventh-century story of Earl Thorfinn of Orkney whom Dorothy believed was also King Macbeth. In 1992, Dorothy Dunnett was awarded the OBE for her services to literature, and in 2014 Dunnett's most enduring hero, Francis Crawford of Lymond, was voted Scotland's favourite literary character - beating the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter and Ivanhoe. Dunnett died 9 November 2001, having sold half a million copies internationally.

Produktdetails

• House of Niccolo
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 55mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780140112672
• ISBN-10: 0140112677
• Artikelnr.: 25664821

Rezensionen

"The finest living writer of historical fiction" - The Washington Post Book World

"Alive with spectacle and pageantry....[Her] army of fans...should continue to swell.... Dunnett has done it again." - The Washington Post Book World

"Another rousing, utterly convincing adventure.... Readers are bound to ask for more." - Kirkus Reviews