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Libro 7 de 8: House of Niccolo Series

Dunnett, Dorothy

 
9780679454779: Caprice and Rondo (House of Niccolo/Dorothy Dunnett)
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ISBN 10: 0679454772 ISBN 13: 9780679454779
Editorial: Random House USA Inc, 1998

Sinopsis

Recreating the world of the early Renaissance with cinematic vividness, the Scottish novelist continues the story of Nicholas de Fleury, an audacious merchant-adventurer who experiences the enormous changes sweeping fifteenth-century Europe. 17,500 first printing.

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Dorothy Dunnett is the author of many novels, including the six-volume Lymond Chronicles; King Hereafter; and the ongoing House of Niccolò sequence, of which <i>Caprice and Rondo</i> is Volume VII. Lady Dunnett and her husband live in Edinburgh.<br><br>Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles <i>(The Game of Kings, Queens' Play, The Disorderly Knights, Pawn in Frankincense, The Ringed Castle,</i> and <i>Checkmate)</i> are available in Vintage paperback.

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: In the frozen port of Danzig, Nicholas de Fleury, one-time soldier, merchant, and banker to kings, leads his raffish companions on frivolous, drunken adventures that give little indication of the dark and complex events that have brought him among them--his activities as a spy; his shifts of allegiance from the Duke of Burgundy to the Holy Roman Emperor, and back; the mischief-making at the court of Scotland so vicious that his disgusted friends cast him into justifiable exile.<br><br>        In six vivid novels (synopsized in an introduction to this volume), the peerless Dorothy Dunnett has shown us Nicholas's progress from humble dyeworks apprentice to merchant prince with his own private army, consultant to duchies and kingdoms--even as he strives to understand his origins and to come to terms with his independent, contrary wife, Gelis. And now, as the ice melts in Danzig, Nicholas must decide his own future: Will he make a new life working for the It

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Editorial
Random House USA Inc
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0679454772
ISBN 13 
9780679454779
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Número de páginas
539
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9780375706127: Caprice and Rondo: Book Seven of the House of Niccolo: 7 (House of Niccolo Series)

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ISBN 10:  0375706127 ISBN 13:  9780375706127
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1999
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