Hilary Mantel
Three-Book Edition
A Place of Greater Safety
Beyond Black
The Giant, O’Brien
Copyright
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This omnibus edition first published by Fourth Estate 2013
A Place of Greater Safety Copyright © Hilary Mantel 1992 Beyond Black Copyright © Hilary Mantel 2005 The Giant, O’Brien Copyright © Hilary Mantel 1998
Hilary Mantel asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
The quotation from ‘The Cleaver Garden’ here is reproducedby kind permission of the late George MacBeth
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Ebook Edition © 2013 ISBN: 9780007528479
Version 2019-06-10
This novel is a work of fiction. The characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination.
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Table of Contents
Excerpt from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety
Contents
I. Life as a Battlefield (1763–1774)
I. The Theory of Ambition (1784–1787)
II. Rue Condé: Thursday Afternoon (1787)
III. Maximilien: Life and Times (1787)
IV. A Wedding, a Riot, a Prince of the Blood (1787–1788)
VI. Last Days of Titonville (1789)
II. Liberty, Gaiety, Royal Democracy (1790)
