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Additional authors

1. Beecher, Merike Lepasaar

Description

1. 544 pages : 1 map; 24 cm

Summary

1. The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Russow is a diamond in the rough, a thoroughly modern man in an Early Modern world, rising from humble origins to greatness through wit and learning alone. As Livonia is used as a political football by the warring powers of Russia, Sweden, Poland and Lithuania, he continues to climb the greasy pole of power and influence. Even as a boy, Russow has the happy knack of being in the right place and saying the right thing at the right time. He is equally at home acting as friend and confidante to his ambitious patron and as champion for his humble rural relatives. Can anything halt his vertiginous rise? Like most young men he is prey to temptations of the flesh ...

Series statement

1. Between three plagues, the story of Balthasar Russow ; 1
2. Kross, Jaan. Kolme katku vahel. English ; v. 1.

Subject

1. Estonia
2. Russow, Balthasar, approximately 1540-approximately 1601
3. Interpersonal relations
4. Russow, Balthasar, approximately 1540-approximately 1601 > Fiction
5. Livonian War, 1557-1582 > Fiction
6. 1557-1582
7. Livonian War (1557-1582)
8. Biographical fiction
9. Europe > Livonia
10. Historical fiction
11. Interpersonal relations > Fiction
12. Fiction
13. Estonia > History > Fiction
14. Livonia > History > Fiction
15. Man-woman relationships > Fiction
16. History

Genre/Form

1. Biographical fiction.
2. Historical fiction.
3. Fiction.
4. History.

Call number

1. JFE 17-9741

Author

1. Kross, Jaan, author.

Title

1. The ropewalker / Jaan Kross ; translated from the Estonian by Merike Lepasaar Beecher.

Publisher

1. London : Maclehose Press/Quercus, 2016.

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Between three plagues, the story of Balthasar Russow ; 1
2. Kross, Jaan. Kolme katku vahel. English ; v. 1.

Chronological term

1. 1557-1582

Added author

1. Beecher, Merike Lepasaar, translator.

ISBN

1. 9780857056948 (HB)
2. 0857056948 (HB)
3. 9780857054562 (TPB)
4. 0857054562 (TPB)

Research call number

1. JFE 17-9741