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Language English OCLC 59431431 ISBN 978-0-7126-7999-2 Country United Kingdom | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date 6 April 2000 Originally published 6 April 2000 Genre Historical Fiction Publisher Hutchinson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 624 pp (first edition, hardback) Similar Works by Edward Rutherfurd, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Forest is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd, published in 2000. Drawing on the success of Rutherfurd's other epic novels this went on to sell well and appeared in numbers of bestseller lists.
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Plot summary
Set in the New Forest of southern England, this novel covers the lives of number of families tracing their history from the Saxons and Normans in 1099 through a "Jane Austen" style world of the early 19th century to present. Story and characters combine to reveal and decorate the narrative in an important region in England not often used by writers.
Reception
"As entertaining as Sarum and Rutherfurd's other sweeping novel of British history, London." —Boston Globe"The Forest is Michener told with an English accent." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch "As literature, Edward Rutherfurd's historical novels are not successful. They judder slowly along ill-made roads, like carts with square wheels, and the beauty of the scenery through which they pass does not entirely distract the passenger's mind from his aching bottom and tired eyes. As vehicles for delivering the fruits of research, however, they are not only efficient, but might truly be called works of art." - The IndependentPublication details
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The Forest (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA