Wolf Hall Richard Tames social sciences

social sciences

the French and the English

With time running out

It is the unmistakable work of a brilliantly individualistic poet

The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women

Wolf Hall Richard Tames social sciencesTudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.