Prvi čovjek Rima - Put pobjede

Gospodari Rima #1 (Part 3 of 3)

by Colleen McCullough, Miloš Đurđević (Translator)

U posljednjem dijelu trilogije Prvi čovjek Rima Gaj Marije i Kornelije Sula nakon trijumfalnog mimohoda po povratku iz Afrike pripremaju pohod na germanska plemena. Marije ponovno dokazuje da je genijalan vojskovođa premda mu ponekad nedostaje Sulina politička lukavost, no ipak svojim odlučnim i hrabrim potezima Marije pobjeđuje svoje protivnike i zadržava položaj konzula.

Genres: Historical, Fiction

420 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim.

Raised by her mother in Wellington and then Sydney, McCullough began writing stories at age 5. She flourished at Catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the University of New South Wales in 1963. Planning become a doctor, she found that she had a violent allergy to hospital soap and turned instead to neurophysiology – the study of the nervous system's functions. She found jobs first in London and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

After her beloved younger brother Carl died in 1965 at age 25 while rescuing two drowning women in the waters off Crete, a shattered McCullough quit writing. She finally returned to her craft in 1974 with Tim, a critically acclaimed novel about the romance between a female executive and a younger, mentally disabled gardener. As always, the author proved her toughest critic: "Actually," she said, "it was an icky book, saccharine sweet."

A year later, while on a paltry $10,000 annual salary as a Yale researcher, McCullough – just "Col" to her friends – began work on the sprawling The Thorn Birds, about the lives and loves of three generations of an Australian family. Many of its details were drawn from her mother's family's experience as migrant workers, and one character, Dane, was based on brother Carl.

Though some reviews were scathing, millions of readers worldwide got caught up in her tales of doomed love and other natural calamities. The paperback rights sold for an astonishing $1.9 million.

In all, McCullough wrote 11 novels.

Source: http://www.people.com/article/colleen...

Reviews

[Вени · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Sanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved it! As a history fan, I would say it has just the right amount of fiction Vs facts that make the story even better.

[Aleksa Vucen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ovim romanom Kolin Mekalou majstorski privodi kraju svoju veličanstvenu trilogiju Prvi čovek Rima, neponovljivu priču o jednoj fascinantnoj istorijskoj epohi i ljudima koji su je oblikovali.

Gaj Marije i Sula su po povratku iz rata u Africi konačno obasuti slavom i priznanjima za kojima su toliko čeznuli. Napokon im čak ni njihovi ljuti protivnici, ultrakonzervativni senatori okupljeni oko Marka Emilija Skaura i Kvinta Cecilija Metela, ne mogu uskratiti pravo da povedu svoju sada prekaljenu armiju na sever, i pokušaju da učine ono što nijednom rimskom vojskovođi pre njih nije pošlo za rukom: zaustave ogromnu seobu tri germanska plemena, nepreglednu hordu ratnika, žena i dece, koji su pre mnogo godina krenuli iz svoje postojbine na krajnjem severu kontinenta, i sada žele da se nasele u Italiji.

Dok Marije dovodi do savršenstva svoju nepobedivu ratnu mašinu, Sulu čeka opasan i nesvakidašnji zadatak, zbog koga će putovati zemljama u koje pre njega nijedan Rimljanin nikada nije kročio. Za to vreme, međutim, u samom večnom gradu dva briljantna ali nestabilna čoveka kuju zaveru koja preti da uništi sve što Marije, Sula i njihova prekaljena vojska pokušavaju da odbrane.

Put pobede je kulminacija jednog velikog epa, iz pera verovatno danas najdarovitijeg svetskog autora istorijske književnosti.

[Zorka Zamfirova · Rating 5 out of 5]

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