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True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few potatoes had been planted that, even if they escaped bight, the...

Edward Rutherfurd

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few potatoes had been planted that, even if they escaped bight, the...

Tags: famine, ireland, potato, whigs

For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins, Conall remarked dryly, we must thank the potato.

Edward Rutherfurd

For the increase in the number of my Brennan cousins, Conall remarked dryly, we must thank the potato.

Tags: ireland, potato

About Author
Edward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle (born in 1948). He is best known as a writer of epic historical novels that span long periods of history but are set in particular places. His debut novel, Sarum, set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand-year storyline.

Imagine. Freedom. Always.

Edward Rutherfurd

Imagine. Freedom. Always.

Tags: always and forever, forever, freedom, imagine

Don’t rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices.

Edward Rutherfurd

Don’t rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices.

Then,

Edward Rutherfurd

Then,

However much you may fall in love, do not waste that love on a woman who is not considerate in return.

Edward Rutherfurd

However much you may fall in love, do not waste that love on a woman who is not considerate in return.

Aunque tuvo otros pretendientes, nunca encontró a ninguno que le interesara. —Su padre se encogió de hombros—. Es una mujer atractiva, pero demasiado independiente». Marc

Edward Rutherfurd

Aunque tuvo otros pretendientes, nunca encontró a ninguno que le interesara. —Su padre se encogió de hombros—. Es una mujer atractiva, pero demasiado independiente». Marc

De María la Sanguinaria; y cuando, al cabo de cinco tristes años, ésta murió sin haber tenido hijos, a Susan no le asombró que en Inglaterra la religión continuara siendo un tema sin resolver. Sólo

Edward Rutherfurd

De María la Sanguinaria; y cuando, al cabo de cinco tristes años, ésta murió sin haber tenido hijos, a Susan no le asombró que en Inglaterra la religión continuara siendo un tema sin resolver. Sólo

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.

Edward Rutherfurd

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.

Sunless

Edward Rutherfurd

Sunless

This Plantagenet king comes from the devil.

Edward Rutherfurd

This Plantagenet king comes from the devil.

La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones.

Edward Rutherfurd

La Iglesia existe con el fin de atraer a los hombres a Dios, pero los obispos y los papas son hombres, igual que los reyes, y experimentan las mismas pasiones.

The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea.

Edward Rutherfurd

The English Church, it was claimed, was Catholicism purified and reformed. And what was the nature of this reform? The truth was that nobody, least of all Henry himself, had much idea.

Tags: tudor

We have all been robbed of the land we have loved for a thousand years. Do you not see that, Welshman? Can you not imagine his rage? We were not even conquered. We were deceived.

Edward Rutherfurd

We have all been robbed of the land we have loved for a thousand years. Do you not see that, Welshman? Can you not imagine his rage? We were not even conquered. We were deceived.

Only one thing, in those years, drew from her a cry of fury. This was the publication, in 1563, of a single, stout book. It was known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs; and it was an astonishing feat of propa...

Edward Rutherfurd

Only one thing, in those years, drew from her a cry of fury. This was the publication, in 1563, of a single, stout book. It was known as Foxe’s Book of Martyrs; and it was an astonishing feat of propa...

London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desemp...

Edward Rutherfurd

London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta historia, desde los Ducket hasta la familia de Penny, son ficticias, al igual que el papel que cada uno de ellos desemp...

—Que tengamos diferentes puntos de vista no implica que tengamos que ser enemigos, ¿sabes? Sea como sea, las cosas no son tan simples.

Edward Rutherfurd

—Que tengamos diferentes puntos de vista no implica que tengamos que ser enemigos, ¿sabes? Sea como sea, las cosas no son tan simples.

London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta

Edward Rutherfurd

London es, antes que nada, una novela. Todas las familias cuya suerte sigue esta

She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.

Edward Rutherfurd

She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.

But there was no need. For at that

Edward Rutherfurd

But there was no need. For at that