ARGONAUT BOOKS

Set in the fifteenth century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse's novel captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history. Reviews [Haasse] has a gift for painting banquets, battles and great ceremonial meetings; these set-pieces glow from the text like rich old oils, ducky and mellowWashington PostMarvelous... Haasse's panorama shows us how great events are experienced by believably human peopleUSA TodayStarkly depicts not only an individual and a culture in crisis, but also compellingly reflects one age in anotherChicago Trib...Read More