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Other Versions of this Book: Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Hardcover, Hardcover
Book Description:
“AS ENTERTAINING AS SARUM AND RUTHERFURD’S OTHER SWEEPING NOVEL OF BRITISH HISTORY, LONDON.”
–The Boston Globe
“Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest, a 100,000-acre woodland in southern England . . . Rutherfurd sketches the histories of six fictional families, ranging from aristocrats to peasants, who have lived in the forest for generations. . . . But the real success is in how Rutherfurd paints his picture of the wooded enclave with images of treachery and violence, as well as magic and beauty.”
–The New York Post
“THE FOREST IS MICHENER TOLD WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT.”
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“TALES OF LOVE AND HONOR, DECEIT AND VIOLENCE, INHERITANCE AND LOSS.”
–San Jose Mercury News
–The Boston Globe
“Engaging . . . A sprawling tome that combines fact with fiction and covers 900 years in the history of New Forest, a 100,000-acre woodland in southern England . . . Rutherfurd sketches the histories of six fictional families, ranging from aristocrats to peasants, who have lived in the forest for generations. . . . But the real success is in how Rutherfurd paints his picture of the wooded enclave with images of treachery and violence, as well as magic and beauty.”
–The New York Post
“THE FOREST IS MICHENER TOLD WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT.”
–St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“TALES OF LOVE AND HONOR, DECEIT AND VIOLENCE, INHERITANCE AND LOSS.”
–San Jose Mercury News
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4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Some books you read, and you are entertained. Books by Edward Rutherford I like to savor. Painstakingly researched. For historical fiction fans, and for people who like a good story, you can get completely immersed in this book.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very interesting look at the common people of a certain area of England over a 900 year period. History in story form. I found it quite interesting.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Edward Rutherfurd supplies a very thorough historical background to this passionate fictional story that is worth exploring.
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wonderful read. I learned so much I never knew before about so many things, and the story line is compelling. It was hard to put this book down to go to sleep, so I found myself doing with less sleep till I finished it. It was well worth the sleep loss. Fantastic detail.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Historical fiction is one of my favorite genre, and this book captivated me from the beginning. The author traces several generations of families throughout this particular section of England. He not only spoke of the people but of the forest creatures, and indeed, the forest itself. He goes into a lot of detail much as Michener does in his books, but it held my interest, and I came away with a better understanding of what life was like from the 1500s to the 1800s in rural England.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Rutherfurd's novels are tops - this one covers 900 years in the history of the New Forest a 100,000 acre woodland in southern England. As entertaining as SARUM and LONDON.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
story of six families over a span of hundreds of years in england. interesting read. very long - almost 800 pages
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
In the style of James Michener, Edward Rutherford takes a location and washes the history with broad strokes of a fine painter's brush. In The Forest, he covers 900 hears in the history of a woodland in Southern England, telling its history through six fictional families from all walks of life.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A captivating story that covers nine centuries in the lives of several families and their descendants of the New Forest. The book contains love, deceit, courage and action as well as the well researched historical information that Edward Rutherford always brings to his novels. A great read!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Big, sweeping epic. I liked this period read.
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The writing of "The Forest" is very rich and detailed. It is interesting to get glimpses of English history from each chapter but I found it confusing that each chapter is actually a different "book". I was expecting the storyline to flow from start to finish. Instead each chapter introduces new characters and a new era in English history.
Overall the book is interesting and full of descriptions.
Excellent book based on the history of The New Forest of England. Tales of love and honor, deceit and violence, inheritance and loss
One of the best novels I've ever read! This author writes epics similar to James Mitchner
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