The Turnbulls (ePub)
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The "darkly exuberant and passionate" saga of a man who flees Victorian England in disgrace-only to build an empire of corruption in America (The New York Times).
The son of a wealthy English merchant, John Turnbull's destiny appears to be a life of...
The son of a wealthy English merchant, John Turnbull's destiny appears to be a life of...
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The "darkly exuberant and passionate" saga of a man who flees Victorian England in disgrace-only to build an empire of corruption in America (The New York Times).
The son of a wealthy English merchant, John Turnbull's destiny appears to be a life of gentlemanly leisure. His path: graduate from his fashionable school and marry his beautiful cousin, Eugenia, whom he loves. Yet, one wild night, a jealous classmate tricks him into making a fateful mistake.
Forced to give up his former life, Turnbull sails for America. He soon falls in with the unscrupulous businessman Mr. Wilkins. Together, they steal patents, smuggle contraband through the Southern blockade during the Civil War, run guns to Japan, and finance the opium trade. But as Turnbull amasses a fortune large enough to vanquish his most powerful enemies, he doesn't realize his gravest threat comes from within his own family.
Packed with fascinating period details, The Turnbulls is a mesmerizing family drama from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Captains and the Kings and Dynasty of Death.
The son of a wealthy English merchant, John Turnbull's destiny appears to be a life of gentlemanly leisure. His path: graduate from his fashionable school and marry his beautiful cousin, Eugenia, whom he loves. Yet, one wild night, a jealous classmate tricks him into making a fateful mistake.
Forced to give up his former life, Turnbull sails for America. He soon falls in with the unscrupulous businessman Mr. Wilkins. Together, they steal patents, smuggle contraband through the Southern blockade during the Civil War, run guns to Japan, and finance the opium trade. But as Turnbull amasses a fortune large enough to vanquish his most powerful enemies, he doesn't realize his gravest threat comes from within his own family.
Packed with fascinating period details, The Turnbulls is a mesmerizing family drama from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Captains and the Kings and Dynasty of Death.
Autoren-Porträt von Taylor Caldwell
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Taylor Caldwell
- 2018, 512 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504053257
- ISBN-13: 9781504053259
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.10.2018
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Pressezitat
“Taylor Caldwell reflects life in a mirror of her own choosing. The reflection is at once strange and magnificently consistent, and must be accepted on its own terms or not at all.” —The New York Times“[A] full-bodied story.” —Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Taylor Caldwell
“Taylor Caldwell spins a yarn with force. . . . 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
“Taylor Caldwell never falters when it comes to storytelling.” —Publishers Weekly
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