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Hamnet : a Novel of the Plague by Maggie O'Farrell; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." — The Boston Globe England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just tak
Who reads Hamnet : a Novel of the Plague?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Maggie O'Farrell; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House LLC
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780525657613
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (14 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24