The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (974 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00DNH699S |
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| Number of Pages | : | 277 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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There is a great story in there - somewhere book lover in Honolulu This is an interesting book - packed with interesting characters, a love story, a history lesson, suspense, mystery, it's great right up until the end. I am a book lover and I liked the detail about how books are made and how old, cherished books are maintained, cateloged and handled. My criticism is the way the story's told - every chapter skips from 3, maybe 4 different periods of time - it was so distracting and I felt frustrated at times trying to figure out wher. Lobster for the English Teacher's Brain armybrat This book is pure delight! The protagonist is the embodiment of every English teacher's dream: we all secretly would like to own a book store or be able to collect or work with antiquarian or rare books. Better than that, the characters in England are people we all know and teach about. Everyone teaching BEOWULF talks about Cotton Vitellius XV -- and here's Robert Cotton! and Green, and Will. I purchased this as a gift for a fellow teacher and told her I'd like to re. "To Be Or Not To Be describes this book" according to carolyn c porter. A wonderful story about books, and Shakespeare, and love. All are set in the 1600s as well as the 1990s, and at times the movement from then to now is a bit confusing. I wish I had used a pen and paper to jot down names and years. The sub-title, A Novel of Obsession, is fairly accurate although it took me a while to see who was obsessed, and with what. The story is about a grieving widower named Peter Byerly and his quest to validate or expose a volume that might or
Hay-on-Wye, 1995. As he follows the trail back first to the Victorian era and then to Shakespeare's time, Peter communes with Amanda's spirit, learns the truth about his own past, and discovers a book that might definitively prove Shakespeare was, indeed, the author of all his plays.. The watercolor is clearly Victorian. Of course, it isn't really her. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. Byatt's Possession. But upon opening an 18th-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait of Amanda tumbles out of its pages. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Yet the resemblance is uncanny, and P