Niccolo Rising, Dorothy Dunnet

Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: To lie with lions
ISBN: 0375704825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375704826
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1651.00 р.
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Описание: With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.
The year is 1471. Within the circus of statecraft, where the lions of Burgundy, Cyprus, England, and Venice stalk and snarl, Nicholas wields a valued whip. Having wrested his little son Jordan from his estranged wife, Gelis, he embarks on the greatest business scheme of his life-- beginning with a journey to Iceland. But while Nicholas confronts merchant knights, polar bears, and the frozen volcanic wastelands of the North, a greater challenge awaits: the vengeful Gelis, whose secrets threaten to topple all Nicholas has achieved. Here is Dorothy Dunnett at her best. Robustly paced, prodigiously detailed, To Lie with Lions renders the quicksands of Renaissance politics as well as the turnings of the human soul, from love to hate and back."

Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: Unicorn hunt
ISBN: 0375704817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375704819
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1651.00 р.
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Описание: With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyer's apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way to the helm of a mercantile empire.

Scotland, 1468: a nation at the edge of Europe, a civilization on the threshold of the Modern Age. Merchants, musicians, politicians, and pageantry fill the court of King James III. In its midst, Nicholas seeks to avenge his bride's claim that she carries the bastard of his archenemy, Simon St. Pol. When she flees before Nicholas can determine whether or not the rumored child is his own--or exists at all--Nicholas gives chase. So begins the deadly game of cat and mouse that will lead him from the infested cisterns of Cairo to the misted canals of Venice at carnival. Breathlessly paced, sparkling with wit. The Unicorn Hunt confirms Dorothy Dunnett as the genre's finest practitioner.

Автор: Dorothy Dunnett
Название: Scales Of Gold
ISBN: 0140112669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140112665
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 2507.00 р.
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Описание: The year 1464 finds our hero Nicholas in Venice. Plagued by enemies bent on dissolving his assets and smearing his character, he sets sail for Africa, legendary location of the Fountain of Youth and the source of gold in such abundance that men prefer to barter in shells.

Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: The Disorderly Knights
ISBN: 0679777458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679777458
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1563.00 р.
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Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: Pawn in Frankincense
ISBN: 0679777466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679777465
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1563.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.

Описание: In thisfourth book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Francis Crawford of Lymond desperately searches the Ottoman empire for his kidnapped child.

Somewhere within the bejeweled labyrinth of the Ottoman empire, a child is hidden. Now his father, Francis Crawford of Lymond, soldier of fortune and the exiled heir of Scottish nobility, is searching for him while ostensibly engaged on a mission to the Turkish Sultan. At stake is the political order of three continents, for Lymond's child is a pawn in a cutthroat game whose gambits include treason, enslavement, and murder.

In that game's final move, which is played inside the harem of the Topkapi palace, Lymond will come face to face with his most implacable enemy and the dreadful ambiguities of his own nature.

With a Foreword by the author.

Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: The Ringed Castle
ISBN: 0679777474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679777472
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1743.00 р.
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Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: The Game of Kings
ISBN: 0679777431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679777434
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1559.00 р.
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Описание: In this first book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Francis Crawford of Lymond, traitor, murderer, nobleman, returns to Scotland to redeem his reputation and save his home.

It is 1547 and Scotland has been humiliated by an English invasion and is threatened by machinations elsewhere beyond its borders, but it is still free. Paradoxically, her freedom may depend on a man who stands accused of treason. He is Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapgrace nobleman of crooked felicities and murderous talents, posessed of a scholar's erudition and a tongue as wicked as a rapier. In The Game of Kings, this extraordinary antihero returns to the country that has outlawed him to redeem his reputations even at the risk of his life.

Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: Queens` Play
ISBN: 067977744X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679777441
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1467.00 р.
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Описание: This second book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles follows Francis Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots.

Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact.

Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: Checkmate
ISBN: 0679777482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679777489
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1559.00 р.
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Описание: Returning to France to take up arms against England, soldier-scholar Francis Crawford achieves great success on the battlefield, but the dark secrets of his past return to haunt him, in the epic conclusion of the Lymond Chronicles. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Автор: Dunnett, Dorothy
Название: King Hereafter
ISBN: 0375704035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375704031
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1651.00 р.
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Автор: Morrison, Elspeth
Название: The Dorothy Dunnett Companion
ISBN: 0375726683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726682
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1655.00 р.
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Описание: Dorothy Dunnett has earned worldwide acclaim for the masterful blending of historical fact and imagination in her two series of novels set in brilliantly reconstructed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscapes.

The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II is an encyclopedic resource that completes and expands the reach of the first Companion in documenting the historical and literary riches of Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles and House of Niccolo novels. In this second guide, Elspeth Morrison not only covers the final three Niccolo novels for the first time, but also provides a wealth of additional information about all of the earlier novels and highlights the links between the two now-completed series. Once again, she illuminates the real figures and events and the cultural and literary allusions Dunnett weaves into her works, translating foreign phrases and offering up fascinating background details, from the history of golf and the argot of galley slaves to the uses of puffins and polar bears. Together with the first Companion, The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II provides a complete and essential guide to the world of Lymond and Niccolo.

Автор: Morrison, Elspeth
Название: The Dorothy Dunnett Companion
ISBN: 0375725873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375725876
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1835.00 р.
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Описание: Here is a lovingly assembled, essential A-Z companion to Dorothy Dunnett's brilliant Lymond Chronicles and the first five novels in the House of Niccolo series.

Elspeth Morrison has re-created the author's exhaustive original research, documenting her myriad sources and literary references. Foreign phrases are translated; poems and quotations presented in full; historical figures and events fleshed out; subtle allusions-and there are many-noted. From the origins of the Arabic drink qahveh to a recipe for quince paste, from the medical uses of ants and alum, to Zacco, Zenobia, and Zoroaster, this easy-to-use A-to-Z reference richly illuminates the intricacies of the complex and far-flung Renaissance world Dorothy Dunnett's creations so colorfully inhabit.