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Автор: Philippa Gregory
Издательство: HarperCollins
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      THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY

      EDITION

       With new foreword by the author.

       logo200 Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by Viking 1987

      This edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

      Copyright © Philippa Gregory Ltd 1987

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      Source ISBN: 9780008229986

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Map

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Epilogue

       Philippa Gregory’s Wideacre trilogy continues with The Favoured Child and Meridon

       Discover More of Philippa Gregory’s Tudor Novels

       Gardens for the Gambia

       About the Author

       Also by Rivka Galchen

       About the Publisher

       Foreword

      I was a young married woman, in my late twenties, living in a small town in the North of England. I had a newborn daughter and I was trying to finish my PhD thesis on the popular fiction of the eighteenth century. To prepare for this study I had read more than 200 novels published between 1740 and 1800 and had painstakingly compared the standard elements like sexual morality, the relationship to agriculture and the countryside, and the wonderfully bizarre: incest, banditti, even aliens. I believed there were identifiable themes in the novels and that they could be read together as a fictional world that sometimes mirrored eighteenth-century England, and sometimes denied and hid it.

      Hoping to become an expert in the real and imaginary eighteenth-century world, I accidentally served the ideal author’s apprenticeship. Without intending it – for