Colleen McCullough Libros

En una accidentada zona rural en el interior de Australia, tres generaciones de la familia Cleary se abren paso a través de la alegría y la tristeza, la amarga derrota y el triunfo glorioso. Impulsados por sus sueños, dirigidos por la inusitada fuerza de su carácter, los integrantes de esta familia son finalmente destrozados por sus bajas pasiones, la violencia y un escandaloso legado familiar de amor prohibido. Una emotiva historia de amor, una poderosa épica de lucha y sacrificio y una celebración del espíritu y la individualidad. Hay una leyenda sobre un pájaro que canta sólo una vez en su vida, y lo hace más dulcemente que cualquier otra criatura sobre la faz de la tierra. Desde el momento en que abandona el nido, busca un árbol espinoso y no descansa hasta encontrarlo. Entonces, cantando entre las crueles ramas, se clava él mismo en la espina más larga y afilada. Y, al morir, envuelve su agonía en un canto más bello que el de la alondra y el ruiseñor. Un canto superlativo, al precio de la existencia. Pero todo el mundo enmudece para escuchar, y dios sonríe desde el cielo. Pues lo mejor sólo se compra con grandes dolores# al menos, así lo dice la leyenda.

Tomorrow's America is a cold & ravaged place, a nation devastated by despair & enduring winter. In a small New England city, senior government official Dr Judith Carriol finds the man she has been seeking--a deliverer of hope in a hopeless time who can revive the dreams of a shattered people, a magnetic, compassionate idealist whom Judith can mold, manipulate & carry to undreamed-of heights, a healer who must ultimately face damnation thru the destructive power of love.

Una casa llamada Missalonghi y situada en un pueblecito australiano es el escenario en el que transcurre la vida gris de Missy Wright, en el umbral de su madurez. Pero, inesperadamente, aparecerá en escena John Smith y, con él, despertarán las ilusiones dormidas de una mujer que descubrirá definitivamente el amor.

New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough re-creates an extraordinary epoch before the mighty Republic belonged to Julius Caesar—when Rome's noblewomen were his greatest conquest. His victories were legend—in battle and bedchamber alike. Love was a political weapon he wielded cunningly and ruthlessly in his private war against enemies in the forum. Genius, general, patrician, Gaius Julius Caesar was history. His wives bought him influence. He sacrificed his beloved daughter on the altar of ambition. He burned for the cold-hearted mistress he could never dare trust. Caesar's women all knew—and feared—his power. He adored them, used them, destroyed them on his irresistible rise to prominence. And one of them would seal his fate.

With the possible exception of the crucifixion of Christ no moment of history is more universally familiar and more often depicted than the assassination of Julius Caesar. Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers as the novel opens. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the enigmatic and subtle Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is at once a great general who commands the instinctive loyalty of Rome's legions, and a man who wishes to bring to an end Rome's endless civil and external wars, a man not only conscious of his own power, and contemptuous of lesser men, but respectful of the republic, and determined not to be worshipped as a living god or crowned as an emperor, a man whose very greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous degree. With her extraordinary knowledge of Roman history, Colleen McCullough brings Caesar to life as nobody has ever done before, and surrounds him with an enormous and vivid cast of historical characters, portrayed here not as literary figures, but as real, living people, trying to control and master enormous political events and survive.

The "New York Times" bestselling author brilliantly reconstructs the mighty republic that once ruled the ancient world and celebrates the genius, passion, ruthlessness, and magnificence of the noblest Roman of all: Gaius Julius Caesar.

In the midst of a disintegrating Republic, the dictator of ancient Rome, Sulla, retires, the brutally ambitious Pompey appoints himself Magnus, and a young Caesar emerges as a towering figure to his people, with his wife, Cimilla, by his side. Reprint.