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The Lords of Montplaisir

Hunter Steele

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Description:o'Human nature does not change. The screen it plays upon merely grows naffower. This soberingview of today, and a key to understandingt he bloody extremeso f history, is an underlying tenetin the philosophy of a Scots author who offers his readers a mixture of thought, violence, sex,and historical adventure, underpinned by irrepressible humour . . ."fHere is] a monstroush istoricale pic of sixteenth-centuryF rancew ith a truly remarkables weepset amid the conflict between Catholics and Huguenots, it leaps from the St Bartholomew's DayMassacre in 1572 through the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the brink of the Thirty YearsWar. It is a stunning read but beware, should your stomach be weak or sensibilities too refined,human nature is not idealised. Here it is, in turn, brave and bloody, noble and treacherous,lecherous, smelly, and occasionally beautiful. Its hero and heroine lovers are innocents travellingthrough a dangerous sea of violence, lust and comrption. Even they, however, are truly aware oftheir bodies." [The novel] is erotic, but not pornographic. The man merely tells it as it was and almostcertainly still is. The book is a parable. The machinationso f sixteenth-centuryE urope are stillwith us in the intrigues of the Kremlin, the White House and Whitehall."The Lords of Montplaisir is a masterpiece of storytelling, setting the overall historic scenethen galloping along chronologically as its hero and heroine deff death and fates worse than. Itteems with incident and detail, is almost cinematic in its clifftranging end to chapters. No pastrycake characters are evident, all are sometimes discomfortingly real, displaying vulpine greed,passion, carbuncles and all, garnished and sustained by the author's humorous and sardonic viewof the vagaries of human nature." Observer"Highly entertaining." Times"At the centre of the novel are the adventures of two brothers, Daniel and Gaspar, Lords ofMontplaisir, who each covet the beautiful young Sylvie. Their competing pursuit of Sylviebecomes entangled with the bloody intrigues of Catholics and Huguenots and is overshadowedby the dark presence of the sinister Abb6 Armoise."Steele gives us neither the stereotypeso f popular historical fiction, nor the weighty sobrietyof a Tolstoy, but rather azany, knockabout vision of history as an erotic tragi-comic farce. Theblack and brutal side of the murderous sixteenth century is set alongside the erotic games of theruling class. The Lords o.f Montplaisir is a hugely enjoyable read with (in every sense) manyclimaxes." Book People"This is a huge book of seven hundred pages; but it wears its erudition with ease and style,never gets boring, and gave me real pleasure as I learned about Huguenots and comrption inthe Catholic church, of the secret lives of French aristocracy, and of medieval sex habits. I relishthe modern metaphors and style slyly deployed to reinvent history." Books in Scotland"Brimming with chutzpah - attacks its subject at full tilt and fulI frontally, relating princelyparanoias and queenly conspiracies with an unerring instinct for the sap of lives lived in wantonprecariousnessT. he link betweenc opulation and population is well made. Who fatheredw hom,by the novel's end, becomes a question of some moment, a matter of creation bloodily mingledwith actso f 'licensed'chilling murderandwiththe slaughteroft he Huguenotsi n 1572w hen, inParis, 'public buildings turned sour with the warm putrid stench of evaporating blood'."In recreating such events and in evoking mood and explaining the tactics and repercussionsof political manoeuvrings, Hunter Steele writes compellingly, informed but never imprisoned byhis fastidious research into the period . . . This is a hustling bloody story stained with sweat andhuman indifference and obsession, told with verve and a feeling for history absent from thetextbooks." Scotland on SundayWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Lords of Montplaisir. To get started finding The Lords of Montplaisir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 696

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: macmillan

Release: 1989

ISBN: 1872988059

Description: o'Human nature does not change. The screen it plays upon merely grows naffower. This soberingview of today, and a key to understandingt he bloody extremeso f history, is an underlying tenetin the philosophy of a Scots author who offers his readers a mixture of thought, violence, sex,and historical adventure, underpinned by irrepressible humour . . ."fHere is] a monstroush istoricale pic of sixteenth-centuryF rancew ith a truly remarkables weepset amid the conflict between Catholics and Huguenots, it leaps from the St Bartholomew's DayMassacre in 1572 through the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the brink of the Thirty YearsWar. It is a stunning read but beware, should your stomach be weak or sensibilities too refined,human nature is not idealised. Here it is, in turn, brave and bloody, noble and treacherous,lecherous, smelly, and occasionally beautiful. Its hero and heroine lovers are innocents travellingthrough a dangerous sea of violence, lust and comrption. Even they, however, are truly aware oftheir bodies." [The novel] is erotic, but not pornographic. The man merely tells it as it was and almostcertainly still is. The book is a parable. The machinationso f sixteenth-centuryE urope are stillwith us in the intrigues of the Kremlin, the White House and Whitehall."The Lords of Montplaisir is a masterpiece of storytelling, setting the overall historic scenethen galloping along chronologically as its hero and heroine deff death and fates worse than. Itteems with incident and detail, is almost cinematic in its clifftranging end to chapters. No pastrycake characters are evident, all are sometimes discomfortingly real, displaying vulpine greed,passion, carbuncles and all, garnished and sustained by the author's humorous and sardonic viewof the vagaries of human nature." Observer"Highly entertaining." Times"At the centre of the novel are the adventures of two brothers, Daniel and Gaspar, Lords ofMontplaisir, who each covet the beautiful young Sylvie. Their competing pursuit of Sylviebecomes entangled with the bloody intrigues of Catholics and Huguenots and is overshadowedby the dark presence of the sinister Abb6 Armoise."Steele gives us neither the stereotypeso f popular historical fiction, nor the weighty sobrietyof a Tolstoy, but rather azany, knockabout vision of history as an erotic tragi-comic farce. Theblack and brutal side of the murderous sixteenth century is set alongside the erotic games of theruling class. The Lords o.f Montplaisir is a hugely enjoyable read with (in every sense) manyclimaxes." Book People"This is a huge book of seven hundred pages; but it wears its erudition with ease and style,never gets boring, and gave me real pleasure as I learned about Huguenots and comrption inthe Catholic church, of the secret lives of French aristocracy, and of medieval sex habits. I relishthe modern metaphors and style slyly deployed to reinvent history." Books in Scotland"Brimming with chutzpah - attacks its subject at full tilt and fulI frontally, relating princelyparanoias and queenly conspiracies with an unerring instinct for the sap of lives lived in wantonprecariousnessT. he link betweenc opulation and population is well made. Who fatheredw hom,by the novel's end, becomes a question of some moment, a matter of creation bloodily mingledwith actso f 'licensed'chilling murderandwiththe slaughteroft he Huguenotsi n 1572w hen, inParis, 'public buildings turned sour with the warm putrid stench of evaporating blood'."In recreating such events and in evoking mood and explaining the tactics and repercussionsof political manoeuvrings, Hunter Steele writes compellingly, informed but never imprisoned byhis fastidious research into the period . . . This is a hustling bloody story stained with sweat andhuman indifference and obsession, told with verve and a feeling for history absent from thetextbooks." Scotland on SundayWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Lords of Montplaisir. To get started finding The Lords of Montplaisir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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