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Gospodari Rima #2 (Part 1 of 3)
Венец от трева - Част I: Предсказанието
Също като трите романа от поредицата „Пръв сред римляните“ и книгите от серията „Венец от трева“ са обемни. Ала макар на страниците невинаги да се разиграват битки или да се водят войни, винаги има някакво политическо събитие, което е не по-малко завладяващо и емоционално от описанието на мащабно сражение. Накратко, най-лесният и занимателен начин да се запознаете с края на Римската република, а после – и на Цезар, – е да прочетете романите за много прочути личности, оживяващи изпод майсторското перо на Колийн Маккълоу. Авторката постига забележителен баланс между достоверност и развлечение – впечатляващо постижение предвид обема на информацията за този исторически период.
Звездата на Марий, пълководецът, спасил Рим от варварите и шест пъти подред избиран за консул (безпрецедентно постижение), вече залязва. Сула, неговият някогашен най-близък съратник, напуска обкръжението на своя командир и е готов да се устреми към властта. Враждата помежду им е смъртоносна, по-силна от предишната им привързаност. Държавата е принудена да води собствена битка за оцеляване – отначало срещу съседните страни, сетне – срещу азиатския завоевател. Смърт, пророчества и съперничество са само елементи от историята на страстите и страданията на Древния Рим.
Звездата на Марий, пълководецът, спасил Рим от варварите и шест пъти подред избиран за консул (безпрецедентно постижение), вече залязва. Сула, неговият някогашен най-близък съратник, напуска обкръжението на своя командир и е готов да се устреми към властта. Враждата помежду им е смъртоносна, по-силна от предишната им привързаност. Държавата е принудена да води собствена битка за оцеляване – отначало срещу съседните страни, сетне – срещу азиатския завоевател. Смърт, пророчества и съперничество са само елементи от историята на страстите и страданията на Древния Рим.
408 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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About the author
Colleen McCullough
129 books3,131 followersColleen 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...
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...
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