Restoration

RestorationRobert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he's called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound

Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the court of King Charles II. Merivel slips easily into a life of luxury and idleness, enthusiastically enjoying the women and wine of the vibrant Restoration age. But when he's called on to serve the king in an unusual role, he transgresses the one law that he is forbidden to break and is brutally cast out from his newfound paradise. Thus begins Merivel's journey to self-knowledge, which will take him down into the lowest depths of seventeenth-century society.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/15/2013
ISBN: 9780393345988
Pages: 423
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 65225 / Restoration: A Novel of Seventeenth-Century England
Reading Level: 7.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 23