Naked Cruelty, McCullough Colleen

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: October Horse
ISBN: 1416566651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416566656
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 15330.00 T
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Описание: With her renowned storytelling gifts in full force, Colleen McCullough delivers a breathtaking novel that proves once again that she is the top historical novelist of our time.

Grand in scope and vivid in detail, McCullough's gripping narrative thrusts readers headlong into the complex and fascinating world of Rome in the tumultuous last days of the Republic. At the height of his power, Gaius Julius Caesar becomes embroiled in a civil war in Egypt, where he finds himself enraptured by Cleopatra, the nation's golden-eyed queen. To do his duty as a Roman, however, he must forsake his love and return to the capital to rule.

Though Caesar's grip on power seems unshakable, the political landscape is treacherous -- the returning hero has no obvious successor, and his legacy seems to be the prize for any man with the courage and cunning to fell Rome's laurelled leader. Caesar's jealous enemies masquerade as friends and scheme to oust the autocrat from power and restore true republican government to Rome. But as the plot races to its dramatic conclusion, it becomes clear that with the stakes this high, no alliance is sacred and no motives are pure.

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Morgan`s run
ISBN: 0099280981 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099280989
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled that of slavery, `The First Fleet` was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent, these convicts and their equally isolated guards occupy the centre of this epic.

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Angel
ISBN: 0007199759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007199754
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: The bestselling author of THE THORN BIRDS returns with a novel of laughter, passion and more than a little magic ...

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Caesar`s women
ISBN: 0099460424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099460428
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the story of Gaius Julius Caesar`s relentless rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68 BC. He comes prepared to dominate a new battlefield - the Roman Forum. But his victories are not limited to the Forum: he also conquers Rome`s noble women.

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: First Man in Rome
ISBN: 0099792303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099792307
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 7030.00 T
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Описание: In Rome, 110BC, upstart military genius Gaius Marius marries the daughter of aristocrat Gaius Julius. Three years later her wayward sister marries the attractive, ambitious but unsuitable Lucius Cornelius Sulla. This book unfolds a tale of intrigue and ambition interwoven with passion.

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Caesar`s Women
ISBN: 0099792605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099792604
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 7030.00 T
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Описание: The fourth of Colleen McCullough's novels set in Ancient Rome. It begins with Julius Caesar's return to Rome in 68BC, prepared to dominate a new battlefield - the Roman Forum. But his victories are not limited to the Forum: he also conquers Rome's noblewomen.

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Fortune`s Favourites
ISBN: 0099305313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099305316
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 7030.00 T
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Описание: This is the third in McCullough's six-novel series on Ancient Rome. Sulla returns from exile and the 22-year-old Pompey names himself Magnus "the Great". The young Julius Caesar moves centre-stage as he battles for supremacy in this saga of political conflict, love and war.

Автор: Mccullough Colleen
Название: Caesar
ISBN: 0099792702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099792703
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 7030.00 T
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Описание: The climax to the "Masters of Rome" series.

Автор: Mccullough Colleen
Название: First Man in Rome
ISBN: 0380710811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380710812
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 5570.00 T
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Описание: A story tracing the creation of Republican Rome presents those who founded an empire, including Marius and Sulla, each determined to become the First Man of Rome.

Автор: Mccullough Colleen
Название: An Indecent Obsession
ISBN: 0380603764 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380603763
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 5230.00 T
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Автор: Mccullough Colleen
Название: Fortune`s Favorites
ISBN: 0380710838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380710836
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 5570.00 T
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Описание: The third volume of a saga set in ancient Rome focuses on the political fortunes of Julius Caesar, a soldier destined for greatness; Sulla, the dictator; and the ambitious Pompey, as well as an account of Spartacus' slave revolt.

Автор: Mccullough Colleen
Название: Morgan`S Run
ISBN: 0671024183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780671024185
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 6120.00 T
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Описание: Colleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller "The Thorn Birds." Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breath-taking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion.

It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown continent with the criminals of English society. For Richard Morgan, twelve months as a prisoner on the high seas would be just the beginning in a soul-trying test to survive in a hostile new land where, against all odds, he would find a new love and a new life. From the dank cells of England's prisons to the unforgiving frontier of the eighteenth-century outback, "Morgan's Run" is the epic tale of one man whose strength and character helped settle a country and define its future.

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Ladies of Missalonghi
ISBN: 0380704587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380704583
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 6260.00 T
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Описание:

Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions.

And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.

Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Creed for Third Millennium
ISBN: 0380701340 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380701346
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 5230.00 T
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Автор: McCullough Colleen
Название: Touch
ISBN: 0671024191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780671024192
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 6120.00 T
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Описание: Not since "The Thorn Birds" has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience as "The Touch."

At its center is Alexander Kinross, remembered as a young man in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and a godless rebel. But when, years later, he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his Scottish relatives quickly realize that he has made a fortune in the gold fields and is now a man to be reckoned with.

Arriving in Sydney after a difficult voyage, the sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Drummond meets her husband-to-be and discovers to her dismay that he frightens and repels her. Offered no choice, she marries him and is whisked at once across a wild, uninhabited countryside to Alexander's own town, named Kinross after himself. In the crags above it lies the world's richest gold mine.

Isolated in Alexander's great house, with no company save Chinese servants, Elizabeth finds that the intimacies of marriage do not prompt her husband to enlighten her about his past life -- or even his present one. She has no idea that he still has a mistress, the sensual, tough, outspoken Ruby Costevan, whom Alexander has established in his town, nor that he has also made Ruby a partner in his company, rapidly expanding its interests far beyond gold. Ruby has a son, Lee, whose father is the head of the beleaguered Chinese community; the boy becomes dear to Alexander, who fosters his education as a gentleman.

Captured by the very different natures of Elizabeth and Ruby, Alexander resolves to have both of them. Why should he not? He has the fabled "Midas Touch" -- a combination of curiosity, boldness and intelligence that he applies to every situation, and which fails him only when it comes to these two women.

Although Ruby loves Alexander desperately, Elizabeth does not. Elizabeth bears him two daughters: the brilliant Nell, so much like her father; and the beautiful, haunting Anna, who is to present her father with a torment out of which for once he cannot buy his way. Thwarted in his desire for a son, Alexander turns to Ruby's boy as a possible heir to his empire, unaware that by keeping Lee with him, he is courting disaster.

The stories of the lives of Alexander, Elizabeth and Ruby are intermingled with those of a rich cast of characters, and, after many twists and turns, come to a stunning and shocking climax. Like "The Thorn Birds," Colleen McCullough's new novel is at once a love story and a family saga, replete with tragedy, pathos, history and passion. As few other novelists can, she conveys a sense of place: the desperate need of her characters, men and women, rootless in a strange land, to create new beginnings.