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The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer. A Matter of Honor by Jeffrey Archer. The race to save the first woman president begins now High school senior Meg revels in being a rebel; cutting class whenever possible and hanging out anywhere she's not supposed to be. Like on a railroad-tracks-covered bridge that's off-limits to trespassers. When she and her friends are busted for trespassing and underage drinking, she's sentenced to spend her spring break riding along with a rookie police officer on his nightshift patrol.
To make things worse the cop, John After, is only two years older than Meg, and is sure that he knows all he needs to about her. John has nothing but contempt for her childish rebellion, but that's fine, because the feelings mutual - his straight-laced, by-the-book attitude is everything that Meg hates.
But they're about to discover that they have a lot more in common than either one of them could have dreamed and, as they're forced to spend time together, sparks fly and a hot attraction between them becomes undeniable…. Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story.
This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present.
What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction.
Originally published in The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in Brad Meltzer--author of the 1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date.
It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history. In , Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found. Until now. Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family's greatest secret: his long-lost father, who's been shot with a gun that traces back to Mitchell Siegel's murder.
But before Cal can ask a single question, he and his father are attacked by a ruthless killer tattooed with the anicent markings of Cain. And so begins the chase for the world's first murder weapon. What does Cain, history's greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world's greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed thousands of years apart, have in common? This is the mystery at the heart of Brad Meltzer's riveting and utterly intriguing new thriller. Continues the saga begun in, Kane and Abel.
One who writes stories weaving family sagas and deception? Do provide me recommendations if you know any! Take my word for it he is the best. I will re-read Pillars of the Earth again and can't wait to start World Without End which is some kind of sequel to it Yes I agree about Sydney Sheldon though he can be a bit shallow but he is still worth reading for family generational sagas.
You dont want to miss Master of the Game as the other reader recommended. You will get immersed in it which is certainly what you want in a good work of fiction. Wilbur Smith also writes notable grand family adventures and sagas although his racial views have been questioned in some of his books but I thoroughly enjoyed When the Lion Roars or something like that Peyton Place is also a good American book.
What was the deal with Susan Lester????? I didn't understand why she was so angry with William Kane. I understand that they had a brief romance, and he lost interest, but her anger was way way way out of proportion to anything that happened. And was she going to risk her inheritance by not voting for him to become Chairman? Muthu Palaniappan May be susan was angry that kane rejected her and choose kate over her,while she was expecting him to marry her at the same time. Lists with This Book.
Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 19, KAS rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. She was absolutely correct, and this book was the catalyst for my love of reading from that point on. I can still remember sitting on my parents couch mesmerized by the storyline. I simply could not put it down.
Jeffrey Archer is a pure genius! BUT, it is about two of the most memorable men I have ever met who despise each other. I am just glad it is still available, as it was first published in Would give 10 stars if I could ; View all comments. Jan 28, Kellie rated it it was amazing Recommended to Kellie by: Mother.
Shelves: reads , fiction-literature. This was a book my mother recommended to me. She read it several years ago and remembered how good it was. And oh how good it was. This is a great story that is told over about 60 years from Europe to America. Archer tells 2 parallel stories. One about Abel Rosnovki and one about William Kane.
The story is so well told and so interesting that I felt torn between the two main characters and their stories. You feel pulled away from one story line when Archer takes you to the next. I enjoyed Archer This was a book my mother recommended to me. Especially the history of Poland and the part it played in both World Wars. Each character is developed from birth by the author and he does an outstanding job of taking you thru their childhood, teenage-school years and then adulthood.
So, as a reader, you really get a feel for what they are made of and why they made the decisions they made throughout their life. The stories cross paths through-out the book and the ending is a masterful surprise. View all 7 comments. Shelves: favorites , adult-fiction , family-saga. I don't think so one can ever read a better Fiction than this. What is it that this book didn't have? You can't set any particular genre for it. It had thrill, mystery, drama, contemporary, historical fiction and what not.
I forgot to mention one thing. It ended with a sense of moral thought. It showed the way people live their modern day lives. Everybody running in one direction, running after money. Money seems to be everything to all of us. But there's an old saying Money can't buy yo I don't think so one can ever read a better Fiction than this.
But there's an old saying Money can't buy you happiness. It shows you that happiness is in small things of life such as your family, friends and all that. View all 6 comments. I read this book because my book club had picked it.
Can that sound any more insulting? I think I'd read it before, when I was a lot younger. I know that it is on my mother's bookshelf, she was very excited when she heard that the book club had chosen it. Anyhoo, it is bad. And not in a way that "it is so bad it is good", it is just bad in a way that "pulling nostril hairs with a pair of pliers" is no fun at all. You get the feeling that Mr. Archer came up with the title during an evening's drink I read this book because my book club had picked it.
Archer came up with the title during an evening's drinking, came up with the plot after a couple more drinks, dictated the story when the bottle was finished. What makes it worse is that you get the feeling that his editor was there at the same drinking session, thus failing to correct the countless mistakes.
Forget the childish writing that an editor should pick up really, soldiers take their clothes off and fold them neatly before raping a women? No, it is the basic errors in the plot that tend to make you think the editor didn't really bother to read the thing. Actually, this book annoyed me so much that I am typing this and getting angrier and angrier, remembering how bad it was. So I'll stop. View all 20 comments.
Released in the United Kingdom in and in the United States in February , the book was an international success. It reached No. The book tells the stories of two men born worlds apart. They have nothing in common except the same date of birth 18 April in the book, and in the miniseries based on it and a zeal to succeed in life.
William Lowell Kane is a wealthy and powerful Boston Brahmin while Abel Rosnovski originally named Wladek Koskiewicz is a Pole who was born in a situation of great poverty and eventually migrated to the United States. Dec 29, peachygirl rated it it was amazing Shelves: read-in What a marvelous story! View all 3 comments. Shelves: popular-fiction , ultimate-reading-list , fiction , novels. It was clear from the start that this wasn't great literature by any means--but for the first part of around pages I found it gripping.
One of those sagas where you enjoy a panorama of history and watching two powerful characters clashing. The story follows two men born on the same day in We follow their parallel but contrasting from boyhood.
Both prove themselves at first both extraordina It was clear from the start that this wasn't great literature by any means--but for the first part of around pages I found it gripping. Both prove themselves at first both extraordinary and sympathetic. We watch self-contained William shrewdly build on his fortune, making his own money buying and selling matchbox cars to his classmates, building a stockmarket portfolio while still a schoolboy, and struggling against his feckless stepfather.
Meanwhile Abel comes into his inheritance, learning he's his father's son even as he loses everything to the Russians in the wake of World War I and emigrating to the United States with only a few dollars coming off the boat. My problems with the books began when their lives began to intersect.
Too many coincidences moved the plot, too many misunderstandings and pettiness factored into their enmity and the resolution was too cliched. View 1 comment. Aug 31, Richard rated it it was amazing. One of the best books I've ever read. Two men from different backgrounds meet and impact on each others lives.
One extremely rich and one a poor refugee from the world war travels to America to make a name for himself. Well written with interesting charaters and story. Well worth a read. View all 4 comments.
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