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In the rugged Australian Outback, The Thorn Birds follows three generations of the extraordinary Cleary family through joy and sadness, bitter defeat and magnificent triumph--driven by their dreams, sustained by remarkable strength of character... and torn by dark passions, violence and a scandalous family legacy of forbidden love.
內容簡介
Now, 25 years after it first took the world by storm, Colleen McCullough's sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback returns to enthrall a new generation. As powerful, moving, and unforgettable as when it originally appeared, it remains a monumental literary achievement--a landmark novel to be read... and read again!
作者簡介
Novelist
Colleen McCullough was born in 1937 in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia. She attended Holy Cross College and the University of Sydney. She wanted to pursue a career in medicine but had an allergy to soap and a shortage of money. She decided to study neuroscience and established the department of neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before working as a researcher and teacher at Yale Medical School for ten years. While there, she wrote her first two novels Tim and The Thorn Birds. Her other works include An Indecent Obsession, A Creed for the Third Millennium, The Ladies of Missalonghi, The First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, Fortunes Favorites, and Caesars Women. She lives on Norfolk Island in the Pacific with her husband.
精彩書評
"A heart-rending epic...truly marvelous"
--Chicago Tribune
"A perfect Read...The kind of book the world blockbuster was made"
--Boston Globe "Beautiful...compelling entertaiment"
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The Thorn Birds(Anniversary Edition)荊棘鳥,周年紀念版 英文原版 [平裝] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
The Thorn Birds(Anniversary Edition)荊棘鳥,周年紀念版 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 epub mobi pdf txt 電子書
The Thorn Birds(Anniversary Edition)荊棘鳥,周年紀念版 英文原版 [平裝] mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 下載 2024
The Thorn Birds(Anniversary Edition)荊棘鳥,周年紀念版 英文原版 [平裝] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024