books in order

Robert Nye Books In Order

Novels

  1. March Has Horse’s Ears (1966)
  2. Taliesin (1966)
  3. Beowulf (1968)
  4. Doubtfire (1968)
  5. Sawney Bean (1970)
  6. Wishing Gold (1970)
  7. Seven Deadly Sins (1974)
  8. Penthesilea (1975)
  9. Falstaff (1976)
  10. Divisions on a Ground (1976)
  11. Merlin (1978)
  12. Once Upon Three Times (1978)
  13. Bird of the Golden Land (1980)
  14. Faust (1980)
  15. Harry Pay the Pirate (1981)
  16. The Voyage of the Destiny (1982)
  17. Memoirs of Lord Byron (1989)
  18. The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles De Rais (1990)
  19. Mrs. Shakespeare (1993)
  20. The Late Mr. Shakespeare (1998)

Collections

  1. Tales I Told My Mother (1969)
  2. Poor Pumpkin (1971)
  3. The Mathematical Princess (1972)
  4. Signature Anthology (1975)
  5. Cricket (1975)
  6. Out of the World and Back Again (1977)
  7. The Facts of Life and Other Fictions (1983)
  8. Classic Folktales from Around the World (1994)
  9. Lord Fox (1997)

Anthologies edited

  1. Book of Sonnets (1976)

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Robert Nye Books Overview

Beowulf

One of the world’s great adventure stories, this epic adventure was first told more than a thousand years ago. Vile and deadly, the monster Grendel rises from his dreggy pool in the night to seek out his victims and kill them in dreadful silence. Hrothgar, king of the Danes, sees no end to the bloodbath: too many of his brave warriors have been slaughtered. Yet there is one man who remains unafraid, one man capable of standing up to the fury of the terrifying monster and his evil mother Beowulf.

Falstaff

Irascible and still lecherous at age 81, Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s greatest characters, spins out these memoirs as an antidote to legend, and in so doing manages to recreate his own. Set in an England that was ribald, violent, superstitious, and brim*ming with a new sense of national purpose, Falstaff brings to life not only the man himself but the whole Elizabethan era, from the viewpoint of one of its major players. Here we see what history and the Bard overlooked or purposely left out: what really happened that celebrated night when Falstaff and Justice Shallow heard the chimes at midnight; who killed Hotspur; how many men really fell at Agincourt; what actually transpired at the coronation of Henry V ‘Harry the Prig’ and much, much more!

The Voyage of the Destiny

Sir Walter Raleigh soldier, explorer, adventurer, lover of Queen Elizabeth emerges from the pages of history and myth, full blooded, passionate, and profoundly human. After unjustly languishing for years in the Tower, Raleigh undertakes one final voyage in search of gold. On his doomed quest he contends with Spanish forces, mutiny, pirates, court intrigue, and disease, all under the shadow of the executioner’s blade awaiting him back home. Along the way, he also recounts his storied rise from humble origins into the Virgin Queen’s favor and court and ultimately her bed. This powerful and action packed novel breathes life into the most dazzling yet most enigmatic of Elizabethans.

The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles De Rais

A recreation of the Bluebeard story which follows a French Army captain, executed in Brittany in 1440. The list of his crimes include witchcraft, heresy, sacrilege, sorcery, the evocations of demons and the practice of unnatural crime against children, ending with their murder for his delight.

Mrs. Shakespeare

It is April 1594. Will Shakespeare, budding poet and playwright, invites his estranged wife to come to London to celebrate his thirtieth birthday. Seven years after his death, Anne Hathaway reminisces about her now famous husband, recalling in particular that unforgettable week and what happened to her in a certain bed in his lodgings above a fishmonger’s shop an enormous four poster that the playwright called their ‘private playhouse.’ By turns thoughtful and bawdy, Mrs. Shakespeare‘s tale offers insight into Will’s secret lives, including the mystery of the second best bed that he bequeathed her, as well as the question that has intrigued scholars and readers for centuries: to hom and for whom were the ‘Dark Sonnets’ written?

The Late Mr. Shakespeare

From ‘one of our best living novelists’Peter Ackroyd comes the most original, exciting, and provocative novel about Shakespeare since Anthony Burgess’s classic Nothing Like the Sun. Our guide to the life of the Bard is an actor called Pickleherring, who asserts that as a boy he was an original member of Shakespeare’s acting troupe. In an attic above a brothel in Restoration London a half century after Shakespeare has departed the stage Pickleherring, now an old man, sits down to write the full story of his former friend, mentor, and master. Fond, faithful Pickleherring has forgotten nothing over the years, and using sources both firsthand and far fetched he means to set the record straight. Was Shakespeare ever actually ‘in love’? Did he write his own plays? Who was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets? Brilliantly in tune with today’s Shakespeare renaissance, Robert Nye gives us an outrageous, language loving, and edifying romp through the life and times of the greatest writer who ever lived. ‘Outrageous and deliciously obscene…
. Deserves a place on the same shelf with Shakespeare’s plays. Never from a work of scholarship or criticism have I learned so much about Shakespeare and his art than from this novel, nor do I remember reading a more lovable book.’ Marvin Hunt, San Francisco Examiner ‘Fantastic, poignant, bizarre…
Nye skillfully summons up the sights, sounds, and language of Pickleherring’s time and place.’ Los Angeles Times

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