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| ISBN: | 0679777474 (ISBN13: 9780679777472) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Lymond Chronicles #5 |
| Characters: | John Dee, Ivan the Terrible, Francis Crawford of Lymond, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, Richard Crawford, Philippa Somerville, Güzel, Richard Chancellor, Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, Mary I of England |
| Setting: | Moscow, Russia,1554 Scotland,1554 London, England,1554(United Kingdom) |
Dorothy Dunnett
Paperback | Pages: 521 pages Rating: 4.58 | 3089 Users | 163 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Ringed Castle (The Lymond Chronicles #5) |
| Author | : | Dorothy Dunnett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 521 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 1997 by Vintage (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Adventure |
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For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. Francis Crawford of Lymond moves to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar. Yet even as Lymond tries to civilize a court that is still frozen in the attitudes of the Middle Ages, forces in England conspire to enlist this infinitely useful man in their own schemes.
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Dunnett's dedicated fans seem to be split over this book: people either love it or hate it but personally this is my favourite in the series after Checkmate.After the heated and heart-crushing journey in Pawn in Frankincense, Lymond is in Russia, building an army for the increasingly-insane Tsar Ivan (the Terrible). Like the Russian landscape itself, he is cold, frigid, icy, unreachable to either his own men of St Mary's or the potential new friends such as the navigator and explorer Diccon"The Ringed Castle", 5th of the Lymond Chronicles, is set in Muscovy, Russia. Here in the cold, frozen, ice covered landscape, Lymond becomes Voevoda Bolshoia, supreme commander to the half-mad Tsar, Ivan Vasilievich. Using his brilliance to create a Russian army machine, he is also trying to become one. In his burning desire to rid himself of all that has brought him pain, joy, sorrow and deep emotion, he is set to use all his gifts and talents to do anything necessary to become ruler and
Dunnett is the master of mature characters who still have so much to learn. The clues are so subtle as to what is really going on in each character's head that you can, as the people around them do, totally misread their motives and emotions. Until...the plot twists and you realize their real concerns and desires. The development of Phillipa's character alone is worth the concentration these books require. And, you soon realize that you're going to read the whole series again, more leisurely now
Dorothy gave us a much needed breather after Pawn in Frankincense, and so book five was considerably less intense. I enjoyed learning about the details of the Russian court and monarchy under Ivan the Terrible in Moscow (particularly in regards to the Catholic / Eastern Orthodox debates over images vs icons). Lymond's band of mercenary troops in Muscovy were developed, but not in the way we are accustomed from the last couple books. We certainly have feelings about Adam Blacklock and Richard
A slight disappointment after book four, but I guess it was inevitable, this feeling of letdown, of burnout and emotional exhaustion after the the showdown in Istanbul between Lymond and Graham Mallett. How could any writer top that? How can even the irrepressible Lymond recover (view spoiler)[ after killing his own son in a game of chess with human pawns (hide spoiler)] ? The answer is you can't, you retreat, gather whatever wits remain available to you and you seek refuge in a place as far
The fifth book in the very excellent historical series of The Lymond Chronicles. What makes this book so compelling? Well the chinks are starting to appear in the near impregnable armour of Lymond. All is due to the very strong presence of his "wife in name only" Philippa. It's satisfying to see Philippa come into her own here and match Lymond word for word.This is a wonderful book in it's own right. Worthy characters, a convoluted and intriguing plot. Perhaps more subdued than previous books,
Book #5 in the Lymond Chronicles as Philippa matures and becomes a force to be reckoned with. "Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin." Now that's what I call an attention getting opening! The Ringed Castle begins book #5 in the series as Philippa returns home to England a very self assured young woman and Francis has hitched his wagon to the mysterious Guzel and heads to Russia to bring Tsar Ivan and his army out of the
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