Jude Morgan Boeken

The ultimate family story, told by one of the most acclaimed historical novelists writing today

The greatest writer of them all, brought to glorious life. How well do you know the man you love? How much do you think you know about Shakespeare? What if they were one and the same? He is an ordinary man: unwilling craftsman, ambitious actor, resentful son, almost good-enough husband. And he is also a genius. The story of how a glove-maker from Warwickshire became the greatest writer of them all is vaguely known to most of us, but it would take an exceptional modern novelist to bring him to life. And now at last Jude Morgan, acclaimed author of Passion and The Taste of Sorrow, has taken Shakespeare's life, and created a masterpiece.

Jude Morgan brings the world of Keats, Byron and Shelley to life in a stunning novel of supercharged emotion, individualism, violence and sensuality. They were the Romantic generation, famous and infamous, and in their short, extraordinary lives, they left a legacy of glamorous and often shocking legend. In PASSION the interwoven lives and vivid personalities of Byron, Shelley and Keats are explored through the eyes of the women who knew and loved them - scandalously, intensely and sometimes tragically. From the salons of the Whig nobles and the penury and vitality of Grub Street, to the beauty and corruption of Venice and the carrion field of Waterloo, PASSION presents the Romantic generation in a new and dramatic light - actors in a stormy history that unleashed the energies of the modern world.

Kniha vypráví o výjimečné rodině osmnáctého století, pocházející z odlehlé, nenápadné farnosti. Navzdory životu v děsivých podmínkách napsaly sestry Brontëovy dva nejskvělejší, nejznepokojivější romány, jaké kdy byly napsány: Janu Eyrovou a Na větrné hůrce. Román Chuť soužení odhaluje počátky exploze génia v této rodině a představuje její jednotlivé členy v období jejich dětství a mládí: samotářskou Emily, která se odvrací od světa k většímu pokušení představivosti; nejmladší Anne, frustrovanou a zastrašenou; jediného bratra Branwella, který chce být králem, ale nedokáže být ani princem, a velmi talentovanou, nekompromisní a přímočarou Charlotte, toužící po lásce a nezávislosti, která proslaví jméno rodiny a pochopí jeho cenu.