Great Lion of God: A Novel about Saint Paul
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Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
Táto autorka je známa svojím rozsiahlym dielom, ktoré sa často zaoberá historickými románmi a témami ako osud a ľudská povaha. Jej štýl je charakterizovaný ako pútavý a detailný, čo čitateľom umožňuje ponoriť sa do doby a prostredia, ktoré opisuje. Caldwell skúma zložité vzťahy medzi ľuďmi a ich vnútorné boje, často zasadené do veľkých historických udalostí. Jej práca, ktorá si získala širokú čitateľskú obec, sa vyznačuje hĺbkou postáv a rozprávačskou silou.






Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
From his birth in 106 BC in the hill town of Arpinum, Cicero, the educated son of a wealthy member of the equestrian order, is destined for greatness. At a young age, he discovers the legend of the Unknown God, the coming Messiah, and it propels the rising lawyer on a journey of spiritual conflict and self-discovery. From his tumultuous family life to his tenuous alliance with Julius Caesar to a fateful love affair with the Roman empress Livia and, finally, to the political role that will make him a target of powerful enemies, A Pillar of Iron is the story of Cicero's legacy as one the greatest influences on Western civilization.
Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek, a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man was my Lord?" And it is of this Lucanus that Taylor Caldwell tells here in one of the most stirring stories ever lived or written.