Colleen McCullough Książki

Ta powieść autorki Pierwszego w Rzymie odtwarza tragiczną i straszliwą epopeję wojny trojańskiej sprzed trzech tysięcy lat: opowieść o nieustającej miłości, o wiecznej nienawiści, o zemście, zdradzie, honorze i ofierze. Poznajemy wydarzenia znane z Iliady Homera kolejno z perspektywy różnych bohaterów: Priama, króla Troi, skazanego na podejmowanie niewłaściwych decyzji w słusznych sprawach; greckiej księżniczki Heleny, egoistycznej piękności, która opuszcza swego nudnego męża dla piękności równie egoistycznej - trojańskiego księcia Parysa; Achillesa, opętanej maszyny do zabijania; sprytnego i podstępnego Odyseusza; Agamemnona, króla królów, który godzi się na nikczemność, aby mogły wyruszyć w morze jego statki. Gdzie znajduje się kres ludzkiego szaleństwa, a gdzie zaczyna bezlitosna zemsta bogów?

The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.

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.

It's 54 BCE. Gaius Julius Caesar is sweeping thru Gaul, crushing the fierce, long-haired warrior-kings who stand in his way. His victories in the name of Rome are epic, but the leaders of the Republic are not pleased. They're terrified. Where will the boundless ambition of Rome's most brilliant soldier stop? He must be destroyed before he can overthrow the government & install himself as Dictator.

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.

Spanning nearly 50 years from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, "The Touch" tells the story of Alexander Kinross who flees the poverty of Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and American gold fields.

"Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Munidia, 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, power-seekers, and Senate intriguers - and setting him at odds with the ambitious, tormented Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once Marius's most trusted right-hand man, now his most dangerous rival"--Provided by publisher

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...

Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of Rome: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian.

Innocence is no protection… In Holloman, Connecticut, someone is preying on the innocent. At a prestigious research centre fondly known by its staff as the 'Hug', parts of a mutilated body are found. Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico of the Holloman Police learns that a string of horrifying murders – each with the same modus operandi as the one at the Hug – have been commited throughout the state. When another body is found, the medical staff become prime suspects. With the powers that be in turmoil and every member of staff hiding something, Delmonico must delve into the lives of each and every Hug employee. This is the case of his career and he is determined to solve it. But how, when he is hunting a monster who leaves no clues and is always two steps ahead?

It was one of the greatest human experiments ever undertaken: to populate an unknown land with the criminal, the unloved and the unwanted of English society. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled those of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a pl

I wouldn′t walk on coals of fire for any man, but Flo? She′s my angel puss. My child. It′s 1960, and twenty-one-year-old Harriet ignores her father′s warning that ′only fools, Bohemians and tarts live at Kings Cross′ and moves into Mrs Delvecchio Schwartz′s rooming house. There she learns about men, love, and tarot cards. But it is mute four-year-old Flo who captures Harriet′s heart, and who teaches her that protecting those you care for most can be hardest of all. Angel Puss vividly evokes the dynamism and passions of a Kings Cross that has gone. It is also the story of women′s love for children, and the sacrifices a woman will make to protect and nurture a beloved child.

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0380711966 here.Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence... until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child - a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world - he illuminates the darkness of Mary's days with his boyish innocence. And he will shatter the lonely, middle-aged spinster's respectable, ordered life with a forbidden promise of a very special love.

Sometimes fairy tales can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicia, nor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to a quiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifully small homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brand new century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and bold, new actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she has just set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspecting stranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.

Jim and Millie Hunter have it all: good looks, brilliant minds, and a meteoric rise to fame in scientific world. But others in their academic circle have got the knives out, jealous of their success. So when a double murder is perpetrated, using poison stolen from Millie's research lab, the couple face some very serious accusations.

In her riveting sequel to "On, Off," featuring Carmine Delmonico, the bestselling author of "The Thorn Birds" proves once again that she is a master of suspense.

An unforgettable Australian saga of sisterhood, family, love and betrayal. This is the story of two sets of twins, Edda and Grace, Tufts and Kitty, who struggle against all the restraints, prohibitions, laws and prejudices of 1920s Australia. Only the submissive yet steely Grace burns for marriage; the sleekly sophisticated Edda burns to be a doctor, the down-to-earth but courageous Tufts burns never to marry, and the too-beautiful, internally scarred Kitty burns for a love free from male ownership. Turbulent times, terrible torments, but the four magnificent Latimer sisters, each so different, love as women do: with tenderness as well as passion, and with hearts roomy enough to hold their men, their children, their careers and their sisters.

A Captain Carmine Delmonico mystery from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds. August 1969. Two anonymous male corpses are discovered in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut. After connecting the emaciated bodies to four other victims, the police realise that Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. Captain Carmine Delmonico's team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics who share family ties, painful memories, and a dark past. Things become even murkier when one of them turns out to be a friend of Sergeant Delia Carstairs. Delia has also recently befriended the head of the local mental hospital, who has been trying to rehabilitate a very difficult patient. When another vicious murder rocks Holloman, Carmine realises that two killers are at large with completely different modus operandi. Suddenly the summer isn't so sleepy anymore. ..

Tomorrow's America is a cold and ravaged place, a nation devastated by despair and 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 and carry to undreamed-of heights; a healer who must ultimately face damnation through the destructive power of love.

Twenty years after Pride and Prejudice closes, the Bennet sisters have another remarkable story to tell. Mary Bennet, of the atrocious voice and staid bent of mind, has been weighed down with family obligations. Her sisters have made lives of their own: Jane is happily married, Elizabeth finds being a Darcy brings unwelcome social pre-eminence, Lydia's still entranced by soldiers, and Kitty's a star of London's fashionable salons. But Mary has had to wait for her moment to claim her liberty. Once she is free, Mary resolves to publish a book about the plight of England's poor. Plunging from one pedicament to another, she embarks upon a mission of investigation that eventually leads her into mortal danger. But having tasted independence, Mary resolves to keep it - and she will let nobody, whether family, suitor or enemy, take it away. Warm, witty, tragic and eminently satisfying, The Independence of Mary Bennet is a novel for every woman who has yearned to make her mark upon the world, from a master story teller.

In Caring For The Wounded, She Found The Strength Of Her Duty. To the battle-broken soldiers in Honour Langtry's care, she was all they had. The beautiful nurse whose selfless devotion calmed the seething hostilities among them. Their one precious reminder of a world before war. The woman each of them adored. In Loving One Man, She Found The Weakness Of Her Heart. The arrival of decorated hero Michael Wilson changed everything. His outward toughness of body and mind didn't match the official reports of something shameful and disturbing about him. Yet despite Honour's fear about his true feelings, she was becoming possessed by Michael. And after a night of passion so long denied, the tensions among Honour's men exploded into a violent tragedy of jealousy and death...and a heartbreaking choice that Honour Langtry would endure for the rest of her life.

Locking your door won't help. He's already inside!

„Există o legendă despre o pasăre care cântă o singură dată în viață, mai dulce decât orice altă vietate de pe fața pământului. Din momentul în care își părăsește cuibul, caută un copac cu spini și nu-și găsește odihna până nu-l află. Apoi, cântând printre ramurile sălbatice, ea se aruncă singură în spinul cel mai lung și mai ascuțit. Și, în extazul morții, ea se înalță deasupra propriei agonii, scoțând un tril mai dulce decât al privighetorii sau al ciocârliei. Un cântec al cărui preț suprem este însăși existența. Întreaga lume înmărmurește ascultându-l și Dumnezeu în Paradisul său zâmbește. Pentru că ceea ce este mai bun în viața noastră se obține numai cu prețul unei dureri existențiale... Ori cel puțin așa spune legenda.“

Mary Horton ist zufrieden mit ihrem bequemen, einsamen Leben . . . bis sie Tim trifft. Ein schöner junger Mann mit dem Geist eines Kindes; ein sanfter Außenseiter in einer grausamen, unnachgiebigen Welt - er erhellt die Dunkelheit von Marys Tagen mit seiner kindlichen Unschuld. Und er wird das respektable, geordnete Leben der einsamen, mittelalten Jungfer mit einem verbotenen Versprechen einer ganz besonderen Liebe erschüttern.

Un roman historique sur la découverte de l'Australie, par l'auteure de Les oiseaux se cachent pour mourir ." La force et la ténacité de son héros font de ce roman l'un des meilleurs de McCullough. " Kirkus Review 1775. Richard Morgan tient une taverne à Bristol. Un jour, son fils disparaît et son épouse est retrouvée morte. Accusé du crime, il est jeté en prison, mais son calvaire ne s'arrête pas là...Il est condamné à l'exil et doit embarquer à bord d'une frégate. Destination, une île perdue au large de l'Australie : Norfolk.En cette contrée, une nouvelle vie l'attend. Des hommes violents gouvernent, la loi du plus fort règne. Morgan devra faire preuve d'une force d'âme à toute épreuve pour parvenir à faire sienne cette terre maudite.S'appuyant sur des faits historiques – Richard Morgan a vraiment existé –, Colleen McCullough retrace dans ce premier volet de L'espoir est une terre lointaine le destin des pionniers qui fondèrent l'Australie.

Romantika a dobrodružství v idylické Anglii doby Jane Austenové – v tomto rámci se odehrává nápaditý příběh australské autorky Colleen McCulloughové, kterou zlákalo pokušení napsat pokračování příběhu o sestrách Bennetových, známého z románu Pýcha a předsudek. Skvělá vypravěčka si za hlavní postavu vybrala Mary, prostřední z pěti sester, a dokázala napsat strhující pokračování, plné překvapení a nečekaných zvratů. Po sedmnácti letech je Mary už osmatřicet – ale rozkvetla do krásy a po matčině smrti je rozhodnutá vyrazit za vlastním dobrodružstvím. Vydává se na cesty, povzbuzená novinovými články záhadného autora, a touží napsat knihu. To se ovšem nelíbí jejímu švagrovi, který má obavy, že by mohla odhalit neblahá tajemství. Jiskřivá romance z pera slavné autorky se čte jedním dechem a prozradí nám, že na pravou lásku není nikdy pozdě.

Gaj Marije i Kornelije Sula predvode vojni pohod na lukavog numidskog kralja Jugurtu. Od pustinjskih oaza i neosvojivih planinskih utvrda pa sve do krvavih bitaka protiv Jugurtine strašne konjice, oni kroče svojim putem slave. Istodobno, rimskim provincijama prijeti najezda Germana… Put slave nastavak je čudesne sage o možda najintrigantnijem razdoblju ljudske povijesti i univerzalna priča o ljudskoj pohlepi, hrabrosti i ljubavi.

S iznimnom narativnom snagom Coleen McCullough, jedna od najčitanijih književnica današnjice, uvlači čitatelja u vrtlog viteštva, strasti i raskoši, koji se zove stari Rim. U toj prijestolnici čitavog poznatog svijeta, sudbinske i obiteljske veze spajaju trojicu naizgled potpuno različitih muškaraca: Gaja Julija – iz drevne patricijske obitelji Cezara, Gaja Marija – vojnoga genija sputanog u političkoj karijeri vlastitim skromnim porijeklom te Lucija Kornelija – ambicioznog i častohlepnog patricija iz osiromašene obitelji Sula. U tom uzavrelom ljudskom mravinjaku, nitko još ne sluti kolika će se moć uskoro naći u njihovim rukama... Roman Put Časti prvi je dio trilogije „Prvi čovjek Rima“ koja se temelji na antičkim izvorima kao i na radovima suvremenih historiografa poput Pauly-Wissowa, Broughton, Syme, Mommsen, Munzer, Scullar i drugih.

Honora est une infirmière née : le courage et la patience, un oubli total d'elle-même et de sa beauté un peu austère. Est-ce pour cela qu'on lui a confié, en cet automne 1945 une tâche entre toutes difficile dans une île du Pacifique ? Là au Pavillon X, sont regroupés des soldats que la guerre a si violemment traumatisés qu'ils ne peuvent encore être rendus à la vie quotidienne. Pour ces hommes hantés d'images atroces ou d'intolérables remords, Honora est tout : une mère, une sœur, la femme avec qui peut-être ils pourraient recommencer à croire à la vie.... ... Jusqu'à l'arrivé de Mike Wilson qui fait du pavillon X un enfer.

Ο Πάντυ Κλήαρι και η οικογένειά του ζουν στην Ντρογκέντα, ένα μεγάλο αγρόκτημα στην Αυστραλία, δουλεύοντας σκληρά για να επιβιώσουν. Τα εφτά παιδιά του μεγαλώνουν και εξελίσσονται ακολουθώντας το καθένα το πεπρωμένο του. Εφτά διαφορετικοί χαρακτήρες, εφτά διαφορετικές ιστορίες. Πιο συναρπαστική, πιο πολυκύμαντη απ’ όλες εκείνη της μονάκριβης κόρης της οικογένειας, της Μέγκυ. Ο ανεπίτρεπτος από θείους και ανθρώπινους νόμους έρωτάς της για τον ωραίο και φιλόδοξο ιερέα Ραλφ θα σημαδέψει ολόκληρη τη ζωή της. «Φτιάχνουμε μόνοι μας τ’ αγκάθια μας κι ύστερα το μόνο που μας μένει είναι να υπομένουμε τον πόνο, λέγοντας στον εαυτό μας πως άξιζε τον κόπο», θα πει η Μέγκυ.