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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10067977744X

ISBN-139780679777441

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038749834

Product Key Features

Book TitleQueens' Play : Book Two in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicSagas, Romance / Historical / Scottish, Action & Adventure, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorDorothy Dunnett

Book SeriesLymond Chronicles Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight13.3 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-046882

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Expert entertainment. . . . Dunnett can describe a duel more convincingly than Dumas." -- The New York Times Book Review "Dorothy Dunnett is a storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about suspense, pace and invention." -- The New York Times "[Lymond] is arguably the perfect romantic hero." -- The Guardian "A masterpiece of historical fiction." -- The Washington Post "Dorothy Dunnett is one of the greatest talespinners since Dumas . . . breathlessly exciting." --Cleveland Plain Dealer "Exciting, dangerous, fascinating." --The Boston Globe "Dunnett is a name to conjure with. Her work exemplifies the best the genre can offer." --The Christian Science Monitor "Ingenious and exceptional . . . its effect brilliant, its pace swift and colorful and its multi-linear plot spirited and absorbing." -- Boston Herald "Dunnett evokes the sixteenth century with an amazing richness of allusion and scholarship, while keeping a firm control on an intricately twisting narrative. She has another more unusual quality . . . an ability to check her imagination with irony, to mix high romance with wit." --Sunday Times (London) "A very stylish blend of high romance and high camp. Her hero, the enigmatic Lymond, [is] Byron crossed with Lawrence of Arabia. . . . He moves in an aura of intrigue, hidden menace and sheer physical daring." --Times Literary Supplement (London) "With shrewd psychological insight and a rare gift of narrative and descriptive power, Dorothy Dunnett reveals the color, wit, lushness . . . and turbulent intensity of one of Europe's greatest eras." --Raleigh News and Observer

Series Volume Number2

Dewey Decimal823/.914

SynopsisThis second book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles follows Francis Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact.

LC Classification NumberPR6054.U56Q4 1997