### Amazon.com Review With such novels as **and** , Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to *place*, in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting. *The Forest* is the most ambitious example yet of Rutherfurd's art. This time the location is that bosky patch of English real estate
The forest: a novel
โ Scribed by Edward Rutherfurd
- Publisher
- Cornerstone Digital;Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2010;2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 522 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0804151024
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD'S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON." 'The Boston Globe "Engaging ... A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest, a 100,000-acre woodland in southern England ... Rutherfurd sketches the histories of six fictional families, ranging from aristocrats to peasants, who have lived in the forest for generations. ... But the real success is in how Rutherfurd paints his picture of the wooded enclave with images of treachery and violence, as well as magic and beauty." 'The New York Post "THE FOREST IS MICHENER TOLD WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT." 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch "TALES OF LOVE AND HONOR, DECEIT AND VIOLENCE, INHERITANCE AND LOSS." 'San Jose Mercury News.
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