Colleen McCullough: First Man in Rome
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- Kategoria: kaunokirjallisuus, alakategoria: kaunokirjalliset sekasisältöiset teokset
- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Cornerstone
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780099462484
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With astounding narrative power, Colleen Mccullough — author of the internationallyacclaimed #1 bestseller THE THORN BIRDS — sweeps the reader into the whirlpool of pageantry, passion, splendor, chaos and earth-shattering upheaval that was ancient Rome. Here is the story of Marius, wealthy but lowborn, and Sulla, an stocratic but, perinfless and debauched — extraordinary men of visionwhose ruthless ambition will lay the foundations of the most awesome and enduring enmpire known to humankind. A towering saga of great events and mortal frailties, it is peopled with a vast, and vivid cast of unforgettable men and women — soldiers and senators, mistresses and wives, kings and commoners — combined in a richly embroidered human tapestrV to bring a remarkable era to bold and breathtaking life. Colleen McCullough's name is synonymouswith bestselling fiction. She is the author of nineextraordinary novels: TIM, AN INDECENT OBSESSION, A CREED FOR THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, THE LADIES OF MISSALONGHI, THE FIRST MAN IN ROME, THE GRASS CROWN, FORTUNE'S FAVORITES, CAESAR'S WOMEN, and the acclaimed Internationalphenomenon, THE THORN BIRDS.