Description
Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he's called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel's journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.
Author: Rose Tremain
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/15/2013
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780393345988
ISBN10: 039334598X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Media Tie-In
- Fiction | Literary