General Information

Title:                  Wolf Hall
Author:                 Hilary Mantel
Read By:                Simon Slater
Copyright:              2009
Audiobook Copyright:    2009
Genre:                  Audio Book Historical Fiction
Publisher:              Macmillan Audio
Abridged:               No

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Number of MP3s:         49
Total Duration:         24:14:30
Total MP3 Size:         333.14
Parity Archive:         No
Encoded At:             CBR 32 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

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Book Description

Winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction. In the ruthless
arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life
to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies
without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry
VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn.
The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king's freedom
destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power
vacuum. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly
original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist,
astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate
politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition.
But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps
him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made
society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their
fate with passion and courage.

With a vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the novel
re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a
hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure
means death.