Captains and the Kings is the sweeping 1972 novel of the family of Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, who departs Ireland as a 13-year-old with his mother and younger brother Sean to join his father in America. His mother dies upon arrival in New York harbor giving birth to his baby sister Regina. He ...
This story gives a different perspective of Roman/Greek/Biblical times and events within, including the birth and life of Jesus. I enjoyed the story as well as the fresh perspective. The most "out of brain" moment was reading the tribune's rant on Rome and realizing you could put America in for...
Prod Desc: Someday the town of Hambledon might forget the lies they told about their brilliant young doctor. But they could never forgive the truths he told about them. From this compelling story of a doctor at war with the world he has been taught to heal, Taylor Caldwell has fashioned a novel...
Great Lion of GodEdited & Corrected Review November 21, 2013Intro/Mea Culpa: First off, my apologies for having created the original review and incorrectly writing about Caldwell’s Dear and Glorious Physician! I’m not entirely sure how I managed to write the essay but then create the wrong book ...
I first read this book 30 years ago and have reread it several times since. The main character is the historical Aspasia, unusual in Ancient Greece in that she was educated (rather than being killed as an infant for being born female, she was secreted to a school for courtesans and courtesans wer...
The ListenerTaylor Caldwell's The Listener was a book I read as a young man, and it is a book that has been a major influence in my life. It tells the story of a rich man who built a magnificent house when he died and in it was a room where people could come and be listened to by a person behind ...
This book was ten kinds of painful. I'm not sure exactly when it started to go wrong. All I know is the train dashed off the tracks somewhere around page 100 -- but contrary to known laws of physics, the caboose continued plowing through dirt at an obscene angle, squashing a bunch of hobos & don...
Over the last few months I have been reading some of Taylor Caldwell's fiction, much of it centered in the time period of American history from the late 1880s through the start of World War I. She sees America at that time as being akin to Rome before the fall. This is the background against wh...
Taylor Caldwell's superb new bestseller about a glamourously wicked widow and eleven extraordinary men of God who told wonderful stories is truly a modern materpiece.
A spine-cilling tale of mystery and murder by one of America's most famous novelists, author of Great Lion of God. Home for Chirstmas - snow-laden trees, a blazing fire, carols around the piano...it all seemed so perfect.
Through one dusky crack in the clouds an evening star looked down bleakly upon mist-capped Mount Atla and an ominously quiet city. In a mood as gray as the twilight, Salustra entered Tyrhia’s apartments. She found her sister, Signar and Brittulia together in a charming lit...
said Kathy to her husband. “And I fried that chicken myself. Betty doesn’t do it right. And I made the hollandaise sauce; I don’t like the prepared variety. It’s your favorite dinner, and you aren’t eating a thing! I’m hurt.” “Sony, darling,” said Mark, and put his fork in...