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Original Title: Queens' Play
ISBN: 067977744X (ISBN13: 9780679777441)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Lymond Chronicles #2
Characters: Henri II of France, Anne de Montmorency, Diane de Poitiers, François de Guise, Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots, Mary, Queen of Scots, Catherine de' Medici, Francis Crawford of Lymond, Thomas Erskine, Richard Crawford, Phelim O'LiamRoe, Piedar Dooly, Robin Stewart
Setting: France,1550 London, England(United Kingdom)
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Queens' Play (The Lymond Chronicles #2) Paperback | Pages: 432 pages
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Title:Queens' Play (The Lymond Chronicles #2)
Author:Dorothy Dunnett
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 432 pages
Published:April 29th 1997 by Vintage (first published 1964)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Adventure. France. Literature. 16th Century

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For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.

Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Queen's Play follows Frances Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact.

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Frustrating, absorbing and intensely emotional, I can't stop thinking about this bookLymond is back, this time in France, hanging out in disguise in the most extravagant and decadent court in 16 c Europe, trying to protect the young Mary queen of scots. The story starts with a bang, there are many twists and turns and Dorothy Dunnett had me wrong footed right form the start. Fans of the main character may be a little disappointed with the first half of the book as Lymond is deep in disguise and

An excellent read. I have a trove of phrases lodged in my head, examples of Dunnett's extraordinary word-smithing ('the impacted rooftops of Blois. like some dental nightmare..'). I liked this complicated story very much, but not quite as much as the first in the series, which may have been in part because I had no guide. I wish someone would hurry up and publish one, because it was difficult, and annoying, reading along knowing I was missing clever details capable of astonishing me with their

This second book of the Lymond Saga opens in 1550, two years after the events described in The Game of Kings.Mary of Guise, queen dowager and regent of Scotland is planning a journey to France; to visit her eight-year-old daughter Mary, Queen of Scots, who is being brought up at Henri IIs court as the affianced bride of the Dauphin. She knows that the fate of Scotland is tied up with the fate of its young queen, and her she has been given reason to believe that her child is in danger.She is

Queen's Play deepened my belief that Dunnett was writing the Lymond Chronicles just for me. Because not only did it have the same wonderful dialogue and attention to historical detail, the same wit and Byzantine plotting as The Game of Kings, this one had Irish characters. Or, to be more specific, it had Phelim O'LiamRoe, who just happens to be Prince of the exact part of Ireland I come from. My tiny, historically unimportant part of Ireland.I think Trin can attest to the 'oh my god for

readathon17: A book that takes place before 1800RTC

Book 2 of the Lymond Chronicles is set almost entirely in France, at the extravagant and cultured court of Henri II. Seven year old Mary Queen of Scots is betrothed to the Dauphin, and the political situation appears relatively stable. However, a series of peculiar accidents make Mary's mother, the Queen Dowager of Scotland, fear for her daughter's safety. She asks Lymond to infiltrate the French court in disguise, but can offer him no protection if he is caught, as she cannot be seen to

new word I've learned from this book: An ollave of the highest grade is professor, singer, poet, all in the one. His songs and tales are of battles and voyages, of tragedies and adventures, of cattle raids and preyings, of forays, hostings, courtships and elopements, hidings and destructions, sieges and feasts and slaughters; and you'd rather listen to a man killing a pig than hear half of them through. After the epic struggle to clear his name in Scotland, you would think Francis Lymond