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Original Title:	The Forest
ISBN:	0345441788 (ISBN13: 9780345441782)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Hampshire, England

The Forest

Edward Rutherfurd

Paperback | Pages: 784 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 7771 Users | 387 Reviews

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Few places lie closer to the heart of the nation's heritage than the New Forest. Now, Edward Rutherfurd, weaves its history and legends into compelling fiction. From the mysterious killing of King William Rufus, treachery and witchcraft, smuggling and poaching run through this epic tale of well-born ladies, lowly woodsmen, sailors, merchants and Cistercian monks. The feuds, wars, loyalties and passions of generations reach their climax in a crime that shatters the decorous society of Jane Austen's Bath, and whose ramifications continue through the age of the Victorian railway builders to the ecologists of the present day.

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Title	:	The Forest
Author	:	Edward Rutherfurd
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 784 pages
Published	:	July 3rd 2001 by Ballantine Books (first published January 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature

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Ratings: 4.02 From 7771 Users | 387 Reviews

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The format of this book is like all of Rutherford's others: historical fiction. This story takes place in a location that is very near Sarum (the subject of his int'l best selling breakout book), but its emphasis is much different: the focus is on how the forest in this area affects the people that live there and vice versa. You get wafts of the big events (e.g. Queen Elizabeth and her Golden Age, the Spanish inquisition) but everyday details concern how deers and oak trees mature. I love

For some reason I found this more engrossing and enjoyable than London despite the fact it was written in much the same way, using family histories, quarrels and affairs as well as major historical events to portray life in the New Forest from its early days to the modern era. The book is divided up into various sections/periods where we follow the Prides, Furzeys and Puckles, Albions, Tottons and Seagulls as they live and breathe the Forest, its customs and traditions while trying to better

Loved it as much as I did "London". Thoroughly engrossing historical fiction. I appreciate the fact that the author provided a map of "the New Forest," in southern England and a genealogy of the six families in the book from 1099 to the 21st century. Great reading! Couldn't put it down some nights until 3:00 a.m. Glad I am retired!

The first sentence of this tome is a real stinker. Stopped me in my tracks. Still, I really liked London so I ploughed on. No happier by the end of the second paragraph, I flipped to the back to check on the page count. 883. Blimey. Had they let this go to print sans editor? Yet, I really did enjoy London so on I plodded.Got through it all in the end. The Forest is a collection of stories, encompassing the 11th century to the dawn of the 21st, involving generations of families - peasant to

History of the New Forest dating from 11th century to present day, told through the memorable people of the Forest: the Prides, Puckles, Cola the huntsman (Albion family), Furzeys, Tottons, the Seagulls. From medieval hunting forest and abbeys through time of the Armada and the civil war and Georgian and Victorian England up till present day. Lots of social, rural and some political history interwoven into the story of generations of these families.

Edward Rutherfurd really does like to write large volumes of historical fiction. Here, he focuses a multi-generational epic within England's New Forest, that swath of Southern England that still remains with its many unique birds and mammals.The New Forest is famous for being the location where King William II (Rufus) was killed with an arrow. I say "killed" because I believe his younger brother, Henry III, ordered the "accident". The book begins at this event and introduces us to the Forest and

Whereas London: The Novel focuses on, obviously, the city of London, The Forest focuses on the development of England as a whole over the centuries. Much of English history concerned the independent hamlets and regions that felt very little connection to the King and to London until the past few hundred years. It was fun to read about the small agrarian communities with their nearby abbeys and giant expanses of forest land. Many things influenced these small communities as England became a