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Edward Rutherfurd

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in Salisbury, England, The United Kingdom

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Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSS ...more

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	Sarum: The Novel of England 4.08 avg rating — 45,986 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New York 4.19 avg rating — 43,420 ratings — published 2009 — 86 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	London 4.09 avg rating — 33,767 ratings — published 1997 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris 4.07 avg rating — 27,963 ratings — published 2013 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 17,633 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Russka 4.03 avg rating — 14,997 ratings — published 1991 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forest 4.05 avg rating — 10,234 ratings — published 2000 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China 4.18 avg rating — 8,296 ratings — published 2021 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rebels of Ireland (The Dublin Saga, #2) 4.12 avg rating — 7,646 ratings — published 2004 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forest, Part 1 of 2 4.30 avg rating — 313 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing

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“You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, New York

tags: new-york-city

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“as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, Russka: the Novel of Russia

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“So does nobody care about Ireland?"
"Nobody. Neither King Louis, nor King Billie, nor King James." He nodded thoughtfully. "The fate of Ireland will be decided by men not a single one of whom gives a damn about her. That is her tragedy.”
― Edward Rutherfurd, The Rebels of Ireland

tags: conflict, england, ireland, war

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January 2022 1st Quarter Classic Long Read

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, 1840, 600 pages

57 votes, 29.7%

Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur): All Volumes by Thomas Malory, 1485, 640 pages

36 votes, 18.8%

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, 1988, 623 pages

27 votes, 14.1%

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, 1993, 1474 pages

24 votes, 12.5%

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 1971, 896 pages

20 votes, 10.4%

In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968, 742 pages

16 votes, 8.3%

Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd, 1987, 912 pages

12 votes, 6.3%

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