Colleen McCullough Libros

A comienzos del siglo pasado, el corazón de Australia era una tierra salvaje en la que sólo se podía salir adelante a base de orgullo y determinación. Cuando Mary Carson encarga a su hermano Paddy Cleary la administración de Drogheda, su inmensa finca ovejera, empieza a trenzarse la trama de pasión y tragedia que alcanzará a tres generaciones sucesivas de los Cleary. En ella se verán falsamente envueltos la dulce Maggie, la hija de Paddy, y el carismático sacerdote Ralph de Bricassart, el protegido de la maquiavélica señora Carson. Orgulloso y tenaz, Ralph sacrifica su amor por Maggie a la ambición por ocupar un puesto entre la más alta jerarquía vaticana... Una decisión que le costará mucho más caro de lo que él piensa.

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.

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.

In the long, fabled history of Rome, never was there one more adored -- yet more feared -- than Gaius Julius Caesar. Invincible on the field of battle, he commands the love and loyalty of those who fight at his side and would gladly give their lives for his glory. Yet in Rome there are enemies everywhere orchestrating his downfall and disgrace. Fanatical rivals like Cato and Bibulus would tear Rome asunder just to destroy her greatest champion -- using their wiles, position, and false promises to seduce others into the fold: vacillating Cicero, the spineless Brutus ... even Pompey the Great, Caesar's former ally. But only ill fortune can come to the "Good Men" who underestimate Caesar. For Rome is his glorious destiny -- one that will impel him reluctantly to the banks of the Rubicon ... and beyond, into triumphant legend.

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.

Amid brutal conditions that paralleled those of slavery, the criminal, the unwanted and unloved of English society were sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. This is a thoroughly researched historical saga, rich in romance and drama, set in Australia.

An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting Marius against a new generation of assassins, powerseekers and Senate intriguers.

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.

Rome 110 BC. Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, men of vision, men fated to lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known and to play out a mighty struggle for power and glory - the ambition of both men: to become First Man in Rome...