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Author
Series
Dublin saga volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Once again Rutherfurd takes us inside the process of history by tracing the lives of several Dublin families from all strata of society, Protestant and Catholic, rich and poor, conniving and heroic.
3) Sarum
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A first novel, Rutherfurd's sweeping saga of the area surrounding Stonehenge and Salisbury, England, covers 10,000 years and includes many generations of five families. Each family has one or more characteristic types who appear in successive centuries: the round-headed balding man who is good with his hands; the blue-eyed blonde woman who insists on having her independence; the dark, narrow-faced fisher of river waters and secrets. Their fortunes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rutherfurd takes readers into the rich and fascinating milieu of the Middle Kingdom. The story begins in 1839, at the dawn of the first Opium War. An English merchant arrives in the restricted port of Canton (Guangzhou), seeking to make his fortune trading opium. But the tide of addiction is decimating the Chinese population--a young scholar accompanies his Mandarin master on a mission from the emperor to shut down the trade. Thus begins an epic...
5) París
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Edward Rutherfurd ha encandilado a millones de lectores con sus historias arrebatadoras sobre generaciones distintas de habitantes de ciudades miticas. En esta ocasion ha escogido a la mas magnifica de todas: Paris. Paris se desarrolla a traves de las historias de pasiones, lealtades divididas y secretos guardados durante anos de personajes tanto ficticios como reales, con el escenario de esta gloriosa ciudad como fondo. De la construccion de Notre...
Author
Series
Dublin saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
A sweeping panorama steeped in the tragedy and glory that is Ireland, epitomizes the power and richness of Rutherford's storytelling magic. The saga begins in tribal, pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and mighty High kings at Tara, with the fate of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails cleverly echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn.
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