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ISBN:	0679777474 (ISBN13: 9780679777472)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Lymond Chronicles #5
Characters:	John Dee, Ivan the Terrible, Francis Crawford of Lymond, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, Richard Crawford, Philippa Somerville, Güzel, Richard Chancellor, Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, Mary I of England
Setting:	Moscow, Russia,1554 Scotland,1554 London, England,1554(United Kingdom)

The Ringed Castle (The Lymond Chronicles #5)

Dorothy Dunnett

Paperback | Pages: 521 pages

Rating: 4.58 | 3089 Users | 163 Reviews

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Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. Francis Crawford of Lymond moves to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar. Yet even as Lymond tries to civilize a court that is still frozen in the attitudes of the Middle Ages, forces in England conspire to enlist this infinitely useful man in their own schemes.

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Title	:	The Ringed Castle (The Lymond Chronicles #5)
Author	:	Dorothy Dunnett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 521 pages
Published	:	September 2nd 1997 by Vintage (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Adventure

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A slight disappointment after book four, but I guess it was inevitable, this feeling of letdown, of burnout and emotional exhaustion after the the showdown in Istanbul between Lymond and Graham Mallett. How could any writer top that? How can even the irrepressible Lymond recover (view spoiler)[ after killing his own son in a game of chess with human pawns (hide spoiler)] ? The answer is you can't, you retreat, gather whatever wits remain available to you and you seek refuge in a place as far

Book #5 in the Lymond Chronicles as Philippa matures and becomes a force to be reckoned with. "Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin." Now that's what I call an attention getting opening! The Ringed Castle begins book #5 in the series as Philippa returns home to England a very self assured young woman and Francis has hitched his wagon to the mysterious Guzel and heads to Russia to bring Tsar Ivan and his army out of the

Dorothy gave us a much needed breather after Pawn in Frankincense, and so book five was considerably less intense. I enjoyed learning about the details of the Russian court and monarchy under Ivan the Terrible in Moscow (particularly in regards to the Catholic / Eastern Orthodox debates over images vs icons). Lymond's band of mercenary troops in Muscovy were developed, but not in the way we are accustomed from the last couple books. We certainly have feelings about Adam Blacklock and Richard

After the heated intensity of Pawn in Frankincense, this fifth (and penultimate) volume of the Lymond Chronicles comes across as cool and subdued which might be owing to it taking place in the more temperate climates of Russia and England instead of the sun-drenched Middle East of the previous novel. This does not mean, however, that The Ringed Castle is not an exciting novel, or that tension and emotions would not run high, quite to the contrary.Things do start somewhat slowly, but that is a

After the devastating consequences of Pawn in Frankincense Dunnett seems to give the reader a reprieve. The penultimate book in the Lymond Chronicles moves at a markedly slower pace to begin. Still plenty of danger, yet Lymond has changed into his most aloof and is icy in the extreme. Is this to his benefit or detriment now he is a big fish in a small pond? Is he coldly calculating and seemingly indiffent to others but his Tsar during his military leadership? Is he irrevocably damaged, lacking

It took me a little while to settle into this 5th volume of the Lymond Chronicles, after the story arc that had done most to drive the last two volumes had come to a devastating conclusion. I knew that there was a story behind that story that must play out, that the big questions that underpin this whole sequence of novels had to be answered and that those two things were in all probability linked; but I needed time to adjust to such a dramatic shift, and to new directions that were intriguing

The Lymond Chronicles books are quite possibly my all-time favorite books, or at least as an adult. There are six thoroughly-researched novels in the series, and each outdoes its predecessor in weaving historic details, compelling characters, and gripping plot twists. The story follow Francis Crawford of Lymond, a minor Scottish nobleman, through adventures that take him from his native land to England, France, Malta, Greece, North Africa, Russia, and finally back home to Scotland. Along the