Learwife

Download or Read eBook Learwife PDF written by J. R. Thorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Learwife
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781643138244
ISBN-13 : 1643138243
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Learwife by : J. R. Thorpe

Book excerpt: Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history. "I am the queen of two crowns, banished fifteen years, the famed and gilded woman, bad-luck baleful girl, mother of three small animals, now gone. I am fifty-five years old. I am Lear's wife. I am here." Word has come. Care-bent King Lear is dead, driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. Now she can tell her story. Though her grief and rage may threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she sent away in shame and disgrace? What has happened to Kent, her oldest friend and ally? And what will become of her now, in this place of women? To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice - one upon which her destiny, and that of the entire abbey, rests. Giving unforgettable voice to a woman whose absence has been a tantalising mystery, Learwife is a breathtaking novel of loss, renewal and how history bleeds into the present.


Learwife Related Books

Learwife
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: J. R. Thorpe
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, this breathtaking debut novel tells the story of the most famous woman ever written out of literary history. "I am the quee
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: Susan Elizabeth Farrell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-01 - Publisher: A&C Black

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.T
Some Luck
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Jane Smiley
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-07 - Publisher: Anchor

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the first volume of an epic trilogy th
Moo
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Jane Smiley
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-24 - Publisher: Anchor

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes “an uproariously funny and at the same time hauntingly melancholy por
King Lear
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: William Shakespeare
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1785 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK