Sarum: The Novel of England
by Edward Rutherfurd
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Author: Edward RutherfurdEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-03-02
ISBN: 0517223546
Number of pages: 912
Publisher: Gramercy
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Book Review: THEE Novel Of England!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sarum is a most impressive work. First of all it impresses merely by the daring scope of its story--thousands of characters set in an historically accurate retelling of English history from the Ice Age to the 1980's--but it also impresses by being as altogether good as it is! Set primarily in and around the Salisbury Plain from the period immediately at the point in the post-Ice Age when rising waters cut the island of Britain off from continental Europe, Sarum procceeds thru pre-history to the building of Stonehenge, the arrival of the Romans, the Dark Age Saxon period, the twelfth century, the construction of the awesome monument to Medieval genius that is Salisbury Cathedral, and then follows on into more recent times such as the Black Death, the age of the Tudors, the Civil War, the glorious eighteenth-century, Napoleonic times, the industrial and Victorian ages, and finally it ends its long, unforgettable journey after making last stops in the times of the world wars and finally concludes some 10,000 years after it began, reuniting 1940's-era lovers in happy circumstances in the town of Sarum in 1985.
This massive novel is the read of a lifetime and it manages to weave a delightful multi-generational story that never slows or becomes boring, never loses historical rectitude, and absolutely positively never, EVER, makes a reader sorry for starting the bold task of reading this gigantic achievement in novel writing.
Mr. Rutherfurd is a gifted writer who achieved little short of the biography of his native land. I recommend Sarum to anyone up to the challenge of devoting at least a fortnight to a journey thru the lives and times that have come to pass on our world's most amazing island nation.
Summary of Sarum: The Novel of England
A masterpiece that is breathtaking in its scope, SARUM is an epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. This rich tapesty weaves a compelling saga of five families who preserve their own particular characteristics over the centuries, and offer a fascinating glimpse into the future.From the Paperback edition.
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