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A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, narrated by a prestigious cast of actors and notable literary figures connected to Hilary’s work. From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the...

Il 14 luglio 1789, il popolo di Parigi prese d'assalto la Bastiglia. Ha inizio la Rivoluzione francese. Meno di un mese dopo, il 4 agosto, l'Assemblea nazionale abolì i diritti feudali e le prerogative della nobilità e del clero, diritti di sangue trasmessi di padre in figlio e che sancivano disuguaglianze considerate naturali, oggettive. Come arrivarono uomini e donne a osare tanto?

One of the 21st century's most celebrated authors, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in her phenomenally successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third novel in the series, 2020's The Mirror and the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. This collection includes three of her best works of contemporary fiction, ranging from the Gothic to the blackly comic.