![]() ![]() Cynical Charles believes implicitly in the divine power of the Modern science all coexist uneasily at the intersection of religion and Unbridled hedonism and Puritan austerity, Renaissance humanism and Writing with wit and stylish maturity, Tremain createsĪn earthy, richly textured world with a distinctively seventeenth-century ![]() There’s a sorrowful brown bear involved and, as always, a woman. ![]() Merivel’s endearing humanity and propensity for misadventure remain undimmed.īehind the magnificent façade of the Sun King’s court all that glitters is farįrom gold. Impetuously decides a trip to Versailles will be just the answer to hisĪlthough no longer in a youthful “lather of heat”, Impulsive nature which is his frequent downfall and chief charm, then His faithful old servants are becoming dangerously decrepit. His beloved daughter Margaret is ready to leave the nest and Present by consigning the past to oblivion, he’s now consumed with anxietyĪbout the future. Grows weary, his lovable Fool is plagued by intimations of mortalityĪnd embarrassing fits of “blubbing”. While the still charismatic but not-so-merry monarch “there was a time of Opportunity, which you and I saw with our own eyes, but it Sir Robert Merivel, physican, accidentalĬourtier and King's Fool, is despondent. A bittersweet coda to Restoration, Merivel is set at the end of Charles II’s reign.įifteen years on, the mood is less jouissanceĪnd more post-coital tristesse. ![]()
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