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Title: The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0-671-79275-X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: horror in the middle ages
Comment: Wise Woman is a brilliant,wickedly honest addition to the midieval genre. After reading this I had to read all of Philippa Gregory's novels. This is the "edgiest" of them . This novel breathlessly proceeds with nail-biting pace to it's ultimate conclusion. There are scenes from this book which are BURNED in my memory: a nightmare of Candlewax and perfidy,the wave of a dolls arm, the truth revealed as to a woman's real value in Midieval society. As dark as it is, Wise Woman is sometimes amusing.It is the laughter, however,of the nervous and the dammed. I highly recommend Wise Woman as a "midieval" turned upside down.
Rating: 1
Summary: Awful
Comment: A friend told me Gregory's work was good historical fiction but it is not!
This is just a Jackie Collins novel set in medieval England. Not only that, the "wise woman" is obviously based on a curious mix of traditional stereotypes of a witch and new-age info. Why go into details about the clothing and food and then appear to get your occult information from a Dennis Wheatley novel?
Not one of the characters is either interesting or likable. Worse still, you don't even hate them, you just end up not caring.
Rating: 5
Summary: A selfish, lying, unfaithful, scheming, ambitious 16 yr old!
Comment: I loved this book. What a real character, full of flaws. What a pretty 16 year old nun who suddenly finds herself in the real world in the time of Henry VIII might actually do. Not mature enough to make good decisions, selfish and wicked enough to wish people harm and definitely immature enough to not realize that there is a reaction to every action. Well done. I have waited a year of reading two books a month to find a book like this! Thank you Ms. Gregory for the tale of a central character so full and rich I stayed up all night reading to finish it.
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Title: Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0006511767 Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0006473377 Publisher: Acacia Press, Inc. List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Queen's Fool : A Novel by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0743246071 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Favored Child : A Novel by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0743249305 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory ISBN: 0312192622 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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