Captains and the Kings - Softcover
A novel based at a time in recent American history when there was great change with the opportunity to develope, build and establish. This was the main aim of our Irish-American characters. A book, once started, which is difficult to put down.
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"An absorbing story . . . Thought-provoking. Those who were enthralled by the power described in The Godfather will be even more so when they read this book." --Cleveland Press
"A spellbinding tale . . . Her sense of timing and her ability to keep even the most alert reader guessing is something readers don't find very often." --Hartford Courant
"Her best novel." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"This bestselling author can tell an engrossing story. She proves it once again in this gigantic novel." --Publishers Weekly
"There is intrigue, violence, abrupt shift of fortune, enigmatic characters, full details of scene and history, and the unflagging pace of varied action." --Buffalo Evening News
"Captains and the Kings is a thought-provoking, utterly spellbinding novel in the great tradition of Taylor Caldwell's earlier works, Testimony of Two Men and Great Lion of God." --The Literary Guild Magazine
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"A spellbinding tale . . . Her sense of timing and her ability to keep even the most alert reader guessing is something readers don't find very often." --Hartford Courant
"Her best novel." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"This bestselling author can tell an engrossing story. She proves it once again in this gigantic novel." --Publishers Weekly
"There is intrigue, violence, abrupt shift of fortune, enigmatic characters, full details of scene and history, and the unflagging pace of varied action." --Buffalo Evening News
"Captains and the Kings is a thought-provoking, utterly spellbinding novel in the great tradition of Taylor Caldwell's earlier works, Testimony of Two Men and Great Lion of God." --The Literary Guild Magazine
Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985) was one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. Born Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell in Manchester, England, she moved with her family to Buffalo, New York, in 1907. She started writing stories when she was eight years old and completed her first novel when she was twelve. Married at age eighteen, Caldwell worked as a stenographer and court reporter to help support her family and took college courses at night, earning a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Buffalo in 1931. She adopted the pen name Taylor Caldwell because legendary editor Maxwell Perkins thought her debut novel, Dynasty of Death (1938), would be better received if readers assumed it were written by a man. In a career that spanned five decades, Caldwell published forty novels, many of which were New York Times bestsellers. Her best-known works include the historical sagas The Sound of Thunder (1957), Testimony of Two Men (1968), Captains and the Kings (1972), and Ceremony of the Innocent (1976), and the spiritually themed novels The Listener (1960) and No One Hears But Him (1966). Dear and Glorious Physician (1958), a portrayal of the life of St. Luke, and Great Lion of God (1970), about the life of St. Paul, are among the bestselling religious novels of all time. Caldwell's last novel, Answer as a Man (1981), hit the New York Times bestseller list before its official publication date. She died at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.
To read more about the life and work of Taylor Caldwell, please visit www.taylorcaldwell.com.
To read more about the life and work of Taylor Caldwell, please visit www.taylorcaldwell.com.
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- PublisherFontana / Collins
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0006148697
- ISBN 13 9780006148692
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages442
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Reprint. Paperback. 442 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 1977. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have superficial wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune , the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless driving man who founded it. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was thirteen years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850's and he was a penniless immigrant, an orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. CAPTAINS AND KINGS is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top; in the bitter-sweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman; in the almost too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children; and in the curse which used the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself. Once again, Taylor Caldwell has looked into America's roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition - and its meaning then and now. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 0006148697. ISBN/EAN: 9780006148692. Inventory No: 23090133. Seller Inventory # 23090133
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