by Judith Merkle Riley · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408017202
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«El oráculo de cristal» is the historical novel by Judith Merkle Riley, published by Planeta in paperback (458 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the court of Louis XIV, it tells the story of Genevieve Pasquier, a young orphan who, after being rescued from the Seine, learns divination from a sorceress. Once in courtly life, she acts as a political spy and becomes embroiled in intrigues of occultism and witchcraft while trying to avenge her father's death.
The novel was published in 1996 as part of Planeta's Pocket Collection no. 78.
For readers of palace intrigues, occultism and a female protagonist with historical setting.
Judith Merkle Riley was an American political scientist and novelist. Writing as Judith A. Merkle, she published Management and Ideology: The Legacy of the International Scientific Management Movement (1980), a study of scientific management reviewed in major historical journals. Beginning in 1988, under her married name, she wrote six historical novels set in late medieval and early modern Europe.
